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<blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5695582" data-attributes="member: 5202"><p>Reasonably priced pdfs and print on demand options like lulu (or does drive thru offer POD now?) would be a positive thing for older editions. Make sure the 4E stuff is in one section and that the older editions have notices plastered on that say these are older editions of D&D and are incompatible w/the current edition of the game. They are on sale for nostalgia purposes. Announce in December that they will go on sale January 1st and will be on sale for one full year. If things go well, they make money from the products sold and 4E sales don't dip further, they will continue.</p><p></p><p>Here are where problems develop. The TSR days had art done on a royalty basis. This means that if they wanted to reuse all of that old art, the artists would be due royalties for their work. WotC had already done away with the early days of Magic's royalty system several years back, so I'm sure they won't want to bring that back in D&D. So there is one large angle people tend to not consider when talking about selling pdfs of the old work.</p><p></p><p>I don't think having online pdf and POD options would dilute the brand or cause them any real troubles. I do think that trying to do physical printing and sell those would be the worst idea imaginable. There is limited shelf space in stores and they would have to choose what to stock. That will just mean that the 4E section would be smaller or else other game companies would suffer and their product space would be reduced. That doesn't help anyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SSquirrel, post: 5695582, member: 5202"] Reasonably priced pdfs and print on demand options like lulu (or does drive thru offer POD now?) would be a positive thing for older editions. Make sure the 4E stuff is in one section and that the older editions have notices plastered on that say these are older editions of D&D and are incompatible w/the current edition of the game. They are on sale for nostalgia purposes. Announce in December that they will go on sale January 1st and will be on sale for one full year. If things go well, they make money from the products sold and 4E sales don't dip further, they will continue. Here are where problems develop. The TSR days had art done on a royalty basis. This means that if they wanted to reuse all of that old art, the artists would be due royalties for their work. WotC had already done away with the early days of Magic's royalty system several years back, so I'm sure they won't want to bring that back in D&D. So there is one large angle people tend to not consider when talking about selling pdfs of the old work. I don't think having online pdf and POD options would dilute the brand or cause them any real troubles. I do think that trying to do physical printing and sell those would be the worst idea imaginable. There is limited shelf space in stores and they would have to choose what to stock. That will just mean that the 4E section would be smaller or else other game companies would suffer and their product space would be reduced. That doesn't help anyone. [/QUOTE]
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