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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7529626" data-attributes="member: 59082">First off, I wouldn't buy a HP D&amp;D book because I'm not a fan of HP. But your point is taken: most people are, and given that I would love, say, an Earthsea D&amp;D book, I get what you are saying.Gonna have to disagree with this, as it is a very &quot;MCU-centric&quot; view. There have been plenty of good superhero movies well before 2008. While they're rather dated, the first couple Christopher Reeves Superman movies were quite good; the Keaton Batman movies (also dated) were very good. The first couple X-Men (especially X2) and first couple Tobey Maguire movies were all good.But yeah, the MCU formula is a good one (although to be honest, I'm starting to grow a little tired of it and really enjoyed a re-watching of Batman v. Superman and its darker, more epic tone - not so much Justice League, which tried to &quot;do an MCU&quot;). Or because $30 for a 300-page high quality hardcover that can be used for years and years is a fantastic deal, and Amazon sells in such quantity that they can make a killing with fractional mark-ups. So let's say your FLGS sells a PHB for $50 that they spent $30 on and makes $20; Amazon sells it for $30, and spent $25 on, so only makes $5, but $5 x 300,000 = $1.5 million.Anyhow, you may be right that the digital version will become the core rule book. I haven't downloaded it yet, but didn't the new version of the Basic Rules have a jump in quality with some nice art-work? Maybe they're already laying the ground for this. That said, people will always want print versions of the rules - at least as long as Gen Xers and Boomers are playing, which are some decades yet. Maybe Millenials--and more so, the younger &quot;Gen Z&quot;--as a group are OK with digital only, but I know Gen Xers aren't (again, as a group). Perhaps a hardcover will become more of a novelty product, and prices will go up so there will be fewer around, but hardcore fans will still have them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 7529626, member: 59082"] First off, I wouldn't buy a HP D&D book because I'm not a fan of HP. But your point is taken: most people are, and given that I would love, say, an Earthsea D&D book, I get what you are saying. Gonna have to disagree with this, as it is a very "MCU-centric" view. There have been plenty of good superhero movies well before 2008. While they're rather dated, the first couple Christopher Reeves Superman movies were quite good; the Keaton Batman movies (also dated) were very good. The first couple X-Men (especially X2) and first couple Tobey Maguire movies were all good. But yeah, the MCU formula is a good one (although to be honest, I'm starting to grow a little tired of it and really enjoyed a re-watching of Batman v. Superman and its darker, more epic tone - not so much Justice League, which tried to "do an MCU"). Or because $30 for a 300-page high quality hardcover that can be used for years and years is a fantastic deal, and Amazon sells in such quantity that they can make a killing with fractional mark-ups. So let's say your FLGS sells a PHB for $50 that they spent $30 on and makes $20; Amazon sells it for $30, and spent $25 on, so only makes $5, but $5 x 300,000 = $1.5 million. Anyhow, you may be right that the digital version will become [I]the[/I] core rule book. I haven't downloaded it yet, but didn't the new version of the Basic Rules have a jump in quality with some nice art-work? Maybe they're already laying the ground for this. That said, people will always want print versions of the rules - at least as long as Gen Xers and Boomers are playing, which are some decades yet. Maybe Millenials--and more so, the younger "Gen Z"--as a group are OK with digital only, but I know Gen Xers aren't (again, as a group). Perhaps a hardcover will become more of a novelty product, and prices will go up so there will be fewer around, but hardcore fans will still have them. [/QUOTE]

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