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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 4848805" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>Actually, I think the people who will buy a lot of PDFs and use those PDFs exclusively are not customers of a brick and mortar store to begin with, so the store loses nothing: they never had those people as customers in the first place.</p><p></p><p>The fencesitters are probably going to be happy with the free beta PDF. They're not store customers either. </p><p></p><p>The people who buy it to check it out will almost always want the hardcopy. The PDF may be cheaper but convenient it most certainly is not; there's a good reason I've never seen a laptop inside our FLGS. Some people love using PDFs at the game table but the people in our group who have tried it (myself included) find it simply leads to more fiddling and looking than with a hardback. </p><p></p><p>So, these people are going to <em>turn into </em>customers for the FLGS.</p><p></p><p>Unless of course you consider that any company that offers any product for sale over the net to be enemies of the FLGS (which means all but the poorest and most incompetant game companies are <em>all </em>enemies of the FLGS). </p><p></p><p>I'm that kind of customer, actually. I'll never purchase anything at the FLGS except as an impulse purchase because tax in my city+county+state is 10%. With rare exceptions, buying online is always a significant discount for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 4848805, member: 3649"] Actually, I think the people who will buy a lot of PDFs and use those PDFs exclusively are not customers of a brick and mortar store to begin with, so the store loses nothing: they never had those people as customers in the first place. The fencesitters are probably going to be happy with the free beta PDF. They're not store customers either. The people who buy it to check it out will almost always want the hardcopy. The PDF may be cheaper but convenient it most certainly is not; there's a good reason I've never seen a laptop inside our FLGS. Some people love using PDFs at the game table but the people in our group who have tried it (myself included) find it simply leads to more fiddling and looking than with a hardback. So, these people are going to [I]turn into [/I]customers for the FLGS. Unless of course you consider that any company that offers any product for sale over the net to be enemies of the FLGS (which means all but the poorest and most incompetant game companies are [I]all [/I]enemies of the FLGS). I'm that kind of customer, actually. I'll never purchase anything at the FLGS except as an impulse purchase because tax in my city+county+state is 10%. With rare exceptions, buying online is always a significant discount for me. [/QUOTE]
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