For those who may not know Nashville is located north of Battle Creek on M-66 right east of Hastings and west of Charlotte. The camera operator, studio time, lighting, audio, post production (editing, graphics, etc.) All of that costs $.None other than Moo-ville Creamery in Nashville Michigan. Prices have to be higher because sales at a lower price are not going to produce the profits needed to stay in business. I'm sure the real costs come in a bit higher.Īlso, the fact that the population of players buying books and equipment is small works against us too. You also don't account for advertising, shipping, company profit and vendor profit. $80 for both the hotel and food? Not sure where that would work. I think your calculations are on the low side for paying the talent and paying expenses. you can go to and get a book for significantly less than what you pay from a vendor. The markup on their books is so high too. so i don't even understand how chess vendors can stay in business. Then out of those chess players, most of them are cheap or don't have any money to pay $30 for one chess DVD. So then why charge so much for the others? yeah, I know you are going to say to make a profit.īut who is going to pay $30 for a chess DVD? First of all the population of players is small compared to other hobbies like golf or poker. If you charge $30 for one dvd, you just need to sell 14 of them to break even. So I don't understand why ChessBase DVDs cost $30 each. The cost of the process for a third partry to do it is usually $2 per DVD. Video content is easily able to be copied and placed on DVD. So that is a total of $400 for the video content. So that is $320 paid and let's throw in another $80 for hotel expenses/meals. I assume the person could get $80/hr for the video. For example, let's say you play a GM to do a 4 hour video on an opening. The cost to manufacture them is very little. Why do chess books and dvds cost so much? Maybe you'll be better off just buying a gin rummy program for your computer and avoiding this chess book madness altogether. 'Chessbibliomania' is not a condition to be easily dismissed, and research has shown it isn't curable. If you're separated from your books for too long, your hands will begin to twitch and you'll start plotting knight moves across the checkered tablecloth at the Italian restaurant where you're supposed to be wooing your wife / girlfriend. You'll start haunting used book shops for old copies of Fischer's 'My 60 Memorable Games.' Your hair will gradually grow unkempt, and a distracted wild look will creep into your eyes. You'll yearn to complete your collection of Alburt's series. You'll want to have all of Sierawan's books (as soon as they're back in print). If you leaf through the books and compare their contents to what you need, you'll soon find yourself dedicating a shelf or two of your bookcase to chess books. as you acquire one or two and read them through-even if you don't-you'll find yourself drawn to the chess section every time you walk into Walden's or Barnes and Noble or Borders. "Remember, if you like books-like reading them and owning them-there's no such thing as 'one chess book.'. Many years ago, I saw a discussion about choosing a chess book. It's an interesting question and I look forward to hearing other people's takes. Either way, I don't think we're really suffering these days. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic or maybe my view is still affected by the fact I spent the first half of my life living in small towns and cities where good bookstores were rare, let alone good book stores with good chess sections. You can live in the smallest of towns and, between Amazon and used book sites like Alibris, you have access to far more books than you would have had available just a couple decades ago. With online shopping, I think we live in a great time to be a chess book fan. While the chess sections may have been bigger once, outside of a few exceptions, I don't really remember them having rows upon rows of books. Besides, I don't remember chess sections ever being truly huge in bookstores across the board. Chess book publishing is still a niche market that publishes so many different books that often wind up out of print. Also, while Silman and others may have massive collections, it doesn't mean that all those books, or even the majority of them, are still in print. With ChIndigo, they've gradually allotted less space for books and more space for tchotchkes and gifts so there isn't the room there once was. Same for Chapters/Indigo up here in Canada.
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