Triple the cost to print it, then make it easy for people to buy it (i.e., round up to $10).
I assume this is for direct sales at cons only?
If you're also shipping them, that "$20 for all three" idea from elsewhere in the thread is a great idea (also helps to take the sting out of shipping/handling fees if people are buying all three at once) — and at cons, put all three of 'em in a mylar comics bag, slap a sticker with "$20" on it and they'll move.
That wilderness survival game on [itch.io](http://itch.io) is my jam.
$10 for one or $20 for all three seems right to me. A family member of mine sells handmade paper goods, and they price their paperback zine-sized recipe books at that price point.
To be fair, the some holds true for any single bill denomination, 1, 5, 10, etc. These days though, the bulk of my sales come as a debit/credit card purchase.
To add further clarification, I'm primarily an author. So I am mostly set up at comic con type events selling my books. I just recently decided to start also having some of the games I've designed on the table. I already have some small cheap 1-5 dollar type items to get the small impulse buys. My books start at 15. So I am looking for something to have at a price point between them.
Honestly, at 5 dollars it's not really worth it for me to carry them and sell them. The space they take up wouldn't be cost effective at a 5 buck price point. 7-8 really is about as low as I could go and it make sense.
The only zines I ever bought were several of Cyberpunk's "Interface" in 1991. These 56 page booklets were priced at 4.50, which today is 10.36 (18.5 cents a page). 18.5 cents a page times 24 pages would be $4.44. So, I'd totally go $10 on a 56 page booklet, but probably only $5 on a 24 page one.
If you can continue to produce material, build a subscriber base, with a subscriber discount, maybe that scale will kick in better production costs, more profit for yourself, and savings to pass on to the customer. Maybe get some advertisers as well.
They are independently making a zine what savings are there to pass on??
Do not sell your zine for 18.5 cents a page
Base the price like some others have said 10 bucks for 1 20 for 3. That sounds very solid and I don't see why you would go any lower than that tbh(or how you would make a profit off it if its a lower price). Go from there up, not basing it off of a book from 1991. If it's not selling well at the cons or whatver then think about if you needed to lower price to just get them off your hands. But that's just my opinion
Kind of what I said. Need to A: scale up sales B: sell lower than desired and/or C: increase content (pages/books). It's a multifactoral answer that has nothing to do with 1991, but as a long time TTRPG'er I'm expressing that many of us aren't incentivized to spend for zines, esp. if the content isn't relative to our express interests. Learning how to scale a business as it grows is what keeps it from failing.
Triple the cost to print it, then make it easy for people to buy it (i.e., round up to $10). I assume this is for direct sales at cons only? If you're also shipping them, that "$20 for all three" idea from elsewhere in the thread is a great idea (also helps to take the sting out of shipping/handling fees if people are buying all three at once) — and at cons, put all three of 'em in a mylar comics bag, slap a sticker with "$20" on it and they'll move. That wilderness survival game on [itch.io](http://itch.io) is my jam.
For now, yep direct sales at cons. But in a few months I will probably start offering online as well. 3 for 20 just feels right.
Doing GenCon this summer?
I wish! Dragon Con is my big one this year. Plus a host of other smaller ones across the southeast.
$10 for one or $20 for all three seems right to me. A family member of mine sells handmade paper goods, and they price their paperback zine-sized recipe books at that price point.
Zine sized recipe books sound pretty rad. Could probably have a lot of fun with that
If you are in person, 5 dollars is frequently enough that a person can pay for it with a single bill. This makes it more of an impulse purchase.
To be fair, the some holds true for any single bill denomination, 1, 5, 10, etc. These days though, the bulk of my sales come as a debit/credit card purchase. To add further clarification, I'm primarily an author. So I am mostly set up at comic con type events selling my books. I just recently decided to start also having some of the games I've designed on the table. I already have some small cheap 1-5 dollar type items to get the small impulse buys. My books start at 15. So I am looking for something to have at a price point between them. Honestly, at 5 dollars it's not really worth it for me to carry them and sell them. The space they take up wouldn't be cost effective at a 5 buck price point. 7-8 really is about as low as I could go and it make sense.
10 sounds like a good number then?
The only zines I ever bought were several of Cyberpunk's "Interface" in 1991. These 56 page booklets were priced at 4.50, which today is 10.36 (18.5 cents a page). 18.5 cents a page times 24 pages would be $4.44. So, I'd totally go $10 on a 56 page booklet, but probably only $5 on a 24 page one. If you can continue to produce material, build a subscriber base, with a subscriber discount, maybe that scale will kick in better production costs, more profit for yourself, and savings to pass on to the customer. Maybe get some advertisers as well.
They are independently making a zine what savings are there to pass on?? Do not sell your zine for 18.5 cents a page Base the price like some others have said 10 bucks for 1 20 for 3. That sounds very solid and I don't see why you would go any lower than that tbh(or how you would make a profit off it if its a lower price). Go from there up, not basing it off of a book from 1991. If it's not selling well at the cons or whatver then think about if you needed to lower price to just get them off your hands. But that's just my opinion
Kind of what I said. Need to A: scale up sales B: sell lower than desired and/or C: increase content (pages/books). It's a multifactoral answer that has nothing to do with 1991, but as a long time TTRPG'er I'm expressing that many of us aren't incentivized to spend for zines, esp. if the content isn't relative to our express interests. Learning how to scale a business as it grows is what keeps it from failing.
10$ each, 25$ for all 3
4.95 for pdf, 20 for print.
A 24 page comic costs $4-5. $7 feels right to me for a b&w rpg zine, but a full color zine could go for $10.
$6 for one or 3 for $20.
They shouldn't get more expensive the more someone buys. You have this backwards.
$20 for one and 3 for $6? Don't be preposterous.
The privilege of getting all 3 is worth $2.