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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When you play DnD, you don't want to have to search through PDF files to find what you want. You want everything laid out in front of you and that means paper copies. Going to PDF only was a rather bad idea as it meant you'd need a computer to be able to play the game. Bad idea and it's only right that it tanked.
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It didn't tank at all. There is a healthy market for RPG game books in PDF format. Thousands are sold at RPGNow.com DriveThruRPG.com Paizo.com and other retailers. PDFs are more handy than printed books, because instead of searching through a 400 page tome during the game, you can print out the ten or so pages you might need for that session. Dozens of different game companies are selling their games as pdfs, many as pdfs exclusively, and doing well. I might add, those products seldom show up in pirated form. As several others have pointed out, most of the Wizards pirated products predate their selling books in PDF form. Wizards never went exclusively pdf. It was more of a sideline, but it was growing.
Since Wizards became a Hasbro subsidiary, it's like they are running around with their head chopped off-- which is probably metaphorically correct.