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<blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 4747460" data-attributes="member: 1129"><p>I feel bad for retailers.</p><p></p><p>They are a transition piece.</p><p></p><p>High end printers get cheaper and cheaper all the time. PDF isn't the huge cost it once was.</p><p></p><p>Publishers can easily control the 'spigot' of how much they charge when they want to do sales, 'blowout' clearance, etc... with a few flicks of the key board.</p><p></p><p>Retailers couldn't compete with Amazon for the most part. This extra level of competition is another blow for them.</p><p></p><p>In terms of service, they don't have a lot of options. Paint your army for you? Rent you space to play? Not like they can host and sell the PDF's themselves right? It'd just create another layer of distrubtion which is one of the benefits of PDF.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying he's right or anything but I can see why he'd be angry. Still, if he stocks fiction books of any kind, he better avoid looking at some of the freebies for the Kindle and free PDF books offered online. The market is changing rapidly and it's final form is not yet known.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoeGKushner, post: 4747460, member: 1129"] I feel bad for retailers. They are a transition piece. High end printers get cheaper and cheaper all the time. PDF isn't the huge cost it once was. Publishers can easily control the 'spigot' of how much they charge when they want to do sales, 'blowout' clearance, etc... with a few flicks of the key board. Retailers couldn't compete with Amazon for the most part. This extra level of competition is another blow for them. In terms of service, they don't have a lot of options. Paint your army for you? Rent you space to play? Not like they can host and sell the PDF's themselves right? It'd just create another layer of distrubtion which is one of the benefits of PDF. I'm not saying he's right or anything but I can see why he'd be angry. Still, if he stocks fiction books of any kind, he better avoid looking at some of the freebies for the Kindle and free PDF books offered online. The market is changing rapidly and it's final form is not yet known. [/QUOTE]
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