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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 7711822" data-attributes="member: 61529"><p>Even if I grant that they're concerned, <strong>so what?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Dude. Chill. I am not trying to "score points", and there is no possible reason this needs to be treated like a life-or-death battle.</p><p></p><p>But the question is: What benefit does Wizards gain from not selling PDFs? The opinions of distributors and retailers matter only if those opinions will result in <strong>lost sales</strong>. Which would require them to, say, stop selling the books. If they continue selling the books, then Wizards isn't losing sales.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's a good point; in theory, Wizards might be better off with people supporting brick and mortar stores.</p><p></p><p>But they might also be better off with a better gameplay experience. I know people who would have bought D&D books, except they couldn't get PDFs. I absolutely prefer PDF to hardcopy for most purposes, but I still buy hardcopy books. If there were PDFs, I'd have bought twice as many D&D things, and I'd be having more fun and my games would run better, because I wouldn't be stuck flipping pages or trying to remember where things were.</p><p></p><p>We've also got a <strong>lot</strong> of data on how PDFs and epubs and things affect book sales, and the answer is exactly what anyone familiar with media purchases would have predicted: If you give away the full text of a book completely free, <strong>hardcopy sales increase</strong>. This is why Baen has a free library of complete books you can download, and has had it for years. It's why authors make special deals with Baen to get their books there even if they're published elsewhere; it <strong>increases sales</strong>.</p><p></p><p>If it weren't paying off, the people doing it would have stopped. They haven't; they've accelerated.</p><p></p><p>Yes, it's totally comprehensible that, in the absence of a decade and more of solid empirical data on how electronic formats affect sales and customer base, people would be afraid. But that's all it is; comprehensible. It's not justified by the facts. It's a knee-jerk reaction. And it's by far the biggest problem I have with 5E, which is otherwise probably my favorite game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seebs, post: 7711822, member: 61529"] Even if I grant that they're concerned, [B]so what?[/B] Dude. Chill. I am not trying to "score points", and there is no possible reason this needs to be treated like a life-or-death battle. But the question is: What benefit does Wizards gain from not selling PDFs? The opinions of distributors and retailers matter only if those opinions will result in [B]lost sales[/B]. Which would require them to, say, stop selling the books. If they continue selling the books, then Wizards isn't losing sales. That's a good point; in theory, Wizards might be better off with people supporting brick and mortar stores. But they might also be better off with a better gameplay experience. I know people who would have bought D&D books, except they couldn't get PDFs. I absolutely prefer PDF to hardcopy for most purposes, but I still buy hardcopy books. If there were PDFs, I'd have bought twice as many D&D things, and I'd be having more fun and my games would run better, because I wouldn't be stuck flipping pages or trying to remember where things were. We've also got a [B]lot[/B] of data on how PDFs and epubs and things affect book sales, and the answer is exactly what anyone familiar with media purchases would have predicted: If you give away the full text of a book completely free, [B]hardcopy sales increase[/B]. This is why Baen has a free library of complete books you can download, and has had it for years. It's why authors make special deals with Baen to get their books there even if they're published elsewhere; it [B]increases sales[/B]. If it weren't paying off, the people doing it would have stopped. They haven't; they've accelerated. Yes, it's totally comprehensible that, in the absence of a decade and more of solid empirical data on how electronic formats affect sales and customer base, people would be afraid. But that's all it is; comprehensible. It's not justified by the facts. It's a knee-jerk reaction. And it's by far the biggest problem I have with 5E, which is otherwise probably my favorite game. [/QUOTE]
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