Question says it all: would you pay more than $10 for a PDF?

Personally, once the price of a PDF goes beyond $10, I become very reticent to the purchase. It has to be some damn premium best gaming ever item for me to pay $20+ for a game in electronic format. Not that I haven't done so in the past (Pavis and Big Rubble at $20 CAD comes to mind as my latest PDF purchase), but I've got to REALLY want the item to hit the "purchase" button.

Ten dollars is my preferred max, but I will not pay more than half the hard copy price.  Really anything above $15 is too much.

Quote from: MonkeyWrench;429382Ten dollars is my preferred max, but I will not pay more than half the hard copy price.  Really anything above $15 is too much.

Pretty much what I was going to say.

SJG is particularly egregious about this. $30 for a PDF? Fuck that.

Quote from: MonkeyWrench;429382Ten dollars is my preferred max, but I will not pay more than half the hard copy price.  Really anything above $15 is too much.

What he said, with only a few exceptions. A compilation of several books could be worth a bit more.
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As a consumer, I wouldn't want to pay more than $10. However, I can see that the publisher would be justified in charging a price that netted them the same amount of money that selling the product to the distributor does. Assuming typical publisher sells book to distributor for 40% of MSRP and PDF publisher retains 65%-70% of PDF sale price, then PDF should be 57.14-61.54% of print MSRP price to make same amount per sale. This is not accounting for manufacturing costs, which with PDF being $0 manufacturing costs versus paper/ink/labor to do print run, would reduce PDF cost. Manufacturing cost is solely for the physical production of the book, not the creation costs which include writing, editing, art, layout, etc. Those are a separate category of costs that must be accounted for prior to selling the book.

Absolutely not.  $10, maximum.

No. I might spend 5$, but probably not.

I've bought lots of pdfs, but rarely for more than $10. Actually $12-15 is an acceptable price point for me but I balk at $20 or more.

I regularly buy above $10, but not too much higher.  Over $15 is really pushing the limit.  Over $20? Get real.

If I buy the dead tree, I want a free PDF.

If PDF only, I want a POD option with a free PDF.

If PDF only and no POD, then my interest wanes greatly.   I have not spent more than $10 on a PDF, but I would in theory if the game would have to rock my shiznack.

Since $10 is only about £6 i would say my maximum is closer to $15 or about £10 but for that i'd expect something worthwhile from a rulebook though it doesnt have to be in full colour as long as i cant gain some use by reading it if nothing else...if its for a pdf of something like starblazer adventures though then i may be willing to pay abit more since its frickin huge.

I'd pay more if I really just had to have the damn thing and that was the only option... but that's far and few between. Most of the PDFs I've bought have been $5 or less.

I have never paid more than $10 for a PDF. Then again, I have only purchased two PDF's that I can remember. I am admittedly a perfect bibliophile.

-Hans

Quote from: Spinachcat;429426If I buy the dead tree, I want a free PDF.

If PDF only, I want a POD option with a free PDF.

If PDF only and no POD, then my interest wanes greatly.   I have not spent more than $10 on a PDF, but I would in theory if the game would have to rock my shiznack.

This.

Although, I don't really need a free PDF if I can get dead tree. And I can't imagine a level of rockitude that would make me pay more than $10 but I wouldn't rule it out. (So: PDF publishers, surprise me.)

I only bought PDFs when they were greatly discounted (like lots of d20 modules when the d20 license came to an end, or charity bundles). And I haven't looked at most of that stuff...

Any of the e-readers on the market allow for .pdf viewing? I'd pay a little more for .pdf's if so, simply to have a much handier way to carry and use them.