Wizards stopped adding titles to DriveThruRPG?

[lior_shapira]

I was under the impression that DriveThruRpg and WotC reached an agreement to add nearly all the D&D titles to the store. I even remember that it was published that at least one title will be added every day. I looked now and saw there are only 19 titles there and I haven't seen a new title added in a long time.

Does anyone have any information about this?

lior

 

[sckeener]

I was under the impression that DriveThruRpg and WotC reached an agreement to add nearly all the D&D titles to the store. I even remember that it was published that at least one title will be added every day. I looked now and saw there are only 19 titles there and I haven't seen a new title added in a long time.

Does anyone have any information about this?

good timing...I was looking at Drivethrurpg this morning and thinking the same thing.....so much for the adding a title every day. They stopped awhile back.

 

[wayne62682]

Maybe they realized (again...) that the vast majority of people aren't going to shell out retail hardcover price for a PDF, especially not one with DRM.

 

[lior_shapira]

Sad and true, I would really like the opportunity to own the pdf's, especially of titles I own hardcovers of.

Which makes me think, a lot of small publishers offer free pdf versions if you buy the print version (and a discount on the print ver. if you buy the pdf). Wizards won't go for that ever would they ?

 

[Morrus]

Nothing so dramatic - there's an update in this thread:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=169460

Short version - they're still gonna be added.

 

[EyeontheMountain]

Unfortunately no. Wizards is in the stone ages with pdfs just like the music industry was (still is) with mp3s. You would think people would learn.

 

[Scribble]

Anyone know what the "rules" are for the wizards DRMs?

I do a lot of cut and pasting stuff into my adventures, but I know sometimes you can't cut and paste with DRM...

 

[lior_shapira]

A month has passed and no new wizards pdf's have been added to DriveThruRPG. Somehow I get the feeling its more than "delays" or technical difficulties...

lior

 

[sckeener]

Anyone know what the "rules" are for the wizards DRMs?

I do a lot of cut and pasting stuff into my adventures, but I know sometimes you can't cut and paste with DRM...

Except for Fiend Folio which for some reason I am not allowed to copy & paste, here are the rules for the rest of the PDFs I own from drivethrurpg

Printing: Allowed
Changing the Document: Not Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying or Extraction: Allowed
Content Extraction for Accessiblity: Allowed
Commenting: Allowed
Filling of form fields: Not Allowed
Signing: Not Allowed
Creation of Template Pages: Not Allowed​

One annoyance I have is not being able to add bookmarks. I like to bookmark places I reference frequently.

 

[Henry]

A month has passed and no new wizards pdf's have been added to DriveThruRPG. Somehow I get the feeling its more than "delays" or technical difficulties...

lior

As a bystander who remembers the hoops and hurdles Codemonkey Publishing has to go through to just get data sets approved, and the fact that it could take up to a year and a half for a book just to go from concept to print, nothing concerns me about the seemingly glacial-pace of the WotC juggernaut, whether the legal dept. or R&D. If they stopped designing new material tomorrow, you'd still have a year of new material to go just from what's in the pipe.