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<blockquote data-quote="TrippyHippy" data-source="post: 7729576" data-attributes="member: 27252"><p>So, by your own research, e23 started <em>later</em> than RPGNow and Drivethrurpg. This also doesn't refute my point that they were skeptical about e-book sales in their editorials at the time. </p><p></p><p>Palladium are a case unto themselves, really, as are WotC who withdrew their drivethru sales on account of their continued fear of copyright infringement and piracy. Some entire companies began through e-book releases, however, including many D20 companies. White Wolf essentially shifted their entire back catalogue to PDF/POD as the entirety of their business which reflected the trends. GURPS, by comparison has gone through this process at a much more leisurely pace. They only just released selected GURPS books on drivethru, lest we forget.</p><p></p><p>Which they delayed, with expressed skepticism, on the grounds that they wanted to protect existing markets (i.e retailers) and prevent copyright infringement. In other words, they wanted to see how other companies coped with drivethru first, before they launched their own model. </p><p></p><p>There is no point opening an online PDF shop if you aren't going to put PDFs on it, but they didn't put their current GURPS core books on for some time (just books that were supplemental or out of print, essentially) and then only at the same price people are complaining about here. They still sell them at the same price because they aren't that interested in generating mass sales of PDF in the same way, say, Fate books are. They are just providing an avenue for the continued <em>existence</em> of GURPS as a product....maybe with POD to follow. It's a lot cheaper to do this than it is to do another print run. Again, physical GURPS books sales are most likely not as large as they use to be, and probably not quite as significant to their overall business either. PDF is a safe option as there is little overhead involved. </p><p></p><p>If you advertise them as such they are, and it's an incentive to buy over the option of more expensive physical books if that is a medium you are happy with. </p><p></p><p>You're links provide information that is not especially useful to this debate, so I'm not sure why you included them here, and I've already answered the point about why GURPS books are not aiming for new print runs instead of PDFs above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TrippyHippy, post: 7729576, member: 27252"] So, by your own research, e23 started [I]later[/I] than RPGNow and Drivethrurpg. This also doesn't refute my point that they were skeptical about e-book sales in their editorials at the time. Palladium are a case unto themselves, really, as are WotC who withdrew their drivethru sales on account of their continued fear of copyright infringement and piracy. Some entire companies began through e-book releases, however, including many D20 companies. White Wolf essentially shifted their entire back catalogue to PDF/POD as the entirety of their business which reflected the trends. GURPS, by comparison has gone through this process at a much more leisurely pace. They only just released selected GURPS books on drivethru, lest we forget. Which they delayed, with expressed skepticism, on the grounds that they wanted to protect existing markets (i.e retailers) and prevent copyright infringement. In other words, they wanted to see how other companies coped with drivethru first, before they launched their own model. There is no point opening an online PDF shop if you aren't going to put PDFs on it, but they didn't put their current GURPS core books on for some time (just books that were supplemental or out of print, essentially) and then only at the same price people are complaining about here. They still sell them at the same price because they aren't that interested in generating mass sales of PDF in the same way, say, Fate books are. They are just providing an avenue for the continued [I]existence[/I] of GURPS as a product....maybe with POD to follow. It's a lot cheaper to do this than it is to do another print run. Again, physical GURPS books sales are most likely not as large as they use to be, and probably not quite as significant to their overall business either. PDF is a safe option as there is little overhead involved. If you advertise them as such they are, and it's an incentive to buy over the option of more expensive physical books if that is a medium you are happy with. You're links provide information that is not especially useful to this debate, so I'm not sure why you included them here, and I've already answered the point about why GURPS books are not aiming for new print runs instead of PDFs above. [/QUOTE]
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