Parmandur
Book-Friend
Players, in my experience, don't generally buy books, and that is what WotC has said for at least the past decade: all the books are designed for DMs, wvwm the ones with player character content. This seems to be a much more successful business model than trying to get non-book buyers to buy books.My issue is that the whole tact is to get players who don't DM to buy more books. I guess what players do is dependent on their involvement and interest in the game. When I was doing 5th edition, I was a mostly player, but I was invested enough that I kept buying books out of a hoarding type behavior.