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Originally Posted by teh603
Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait a long while longer for all the Neanderthals and Austrelopithicines (sp?) to filter out of the system.
Case in point, Wizards of the Coast and their canning all the legitimate sources of watermarked PDFs on the grounds that PDF piracy was cutting into their sales to much. Legitimate RPG e-book websites like DriveThruRPG are still doing a booming ebook business, even if their stuff is a bit hefty to load into my Story HD's main memory. WotC, on the other hand is plagued by managers and executives who only seem to understand Magic: the Gathering and not role- players or miniatures gamers.
It also hasn't done a thing to stop people from cutting the binding out of their books, scanning them, and posting the scans on various internet sources, which is where most of the pirated ebooks were all coming from anyway. Ending the distribution of legitimate PDFs of their books has only reduced WotC's revenue stream and shot them in the digital foot.
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I have to agree with that.
My wife and I are participating in our Son in Law's D&D campaign and the expensive hardcover gaming manuals are kept aside (I have all versions except e4.0 in hardcover) and easier to handle PDF's on netbooks and iPads are used for rules lookup et al are sued during the gaming sessions.
Apparently it has been this way for several years now and keeps the hardcovers from disintegrating and becoming ruined. At around AU$60-80 per book, it certainly can be understood why they might want to do that. I purchased a paperback version of the rules for sessions on eBay but the veterans of the group indicated that those are rare as rocking horse poo.
It is a damn shame that WoG reverted to head in sand tactics in regards to PDF documents of the rule books. They could have sold those for a quarter of the hardover cost and a lot of gamers would have been happy.
Simply confirms my view that publishers (in this case) simply have no idea whatsoever how to handle supply and distibution in this modern world.