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Legend
Warbringer said:As part of the 4e marketing strategy, WoTC does away with monster manuals, instead printing only cards as part of a collectable monster series?
Then someone, be they official, licensed or unofficial, will compile an online database of all the monsters, that will be used heavily, and the majority of us will play on as before. WotC may try to stamp on such an effort to retain control over the market... but they'd either fail or kill the game.
What I can see happening is them publishing an abridged set of spells in the new PHB, then doing expanded spell-lists in collectable card format. At the end of the year, they can then compile all the year's spells in handy book format and sell that. They might try the same with magic items.
However, the big hurdle to this is moving the DM base to the mindset that a player can introduce whatever he has to the game. As long as the majority of DMs require the current level of oversight over what goes into the game (or takes the view that 'anything I don't personally own is banned'), this strategy is likely to fail.