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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4755685" data-attributes="member: 2209">I believe the study only analyzes the contention that decline in album sales is linked to music downloads.The study will not be a perfect fit as there are differences between music and RPGs as well as the fact that it analyzes the situation five years ago. I would think though that there would be a closer link between music downloads to CDs than between pirated pdfs and physical books as you can do the same things with CDs and music downloads (Copy them onto blank CDs, copy them onto your computer or mp3 player etc.) while books and pdfs have some different functionalities (non-screen reading, reading in bed, in a living room, at a game table, versus search, copy and paste, print out only the selection you need, portability on a laptop).What incentive does WotC have to sell legal pdfs if there are people who only want pdfs and some of those will get the free pirated ones instead? This seems like a self evident answer to me but their incentive is to get the sales of PDFs from those who buy legally. The only way to get any money from the pdf only pool of purchasers is to sell pdfs.Not selling pdfs means losing all the sales WotC would have gained if they were for sale.</blockquote>