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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 7647711" data-attributes="member: 21076">PDFs are certainly a viable selling format, but a couple of things. One, even with my growing collection of PDFs I find myself buying physical copies of certain books that duplicate ones I already own in PDF. Why? It makes loaning and sharing with others easier. IronPup has an interest in gaming at the moment. A good portion of my stuff is PDF these days. It would be much easier to let him browse the physical bookshelf to see what piques his interest and grab that off the shelf than it is to use the PDFs on my tablet or computer.Same for when friends come over or if I want to lend a book to a friend for a week so they can work on their monk or some such.I find PDFs great for someone already interested in the hobby, but not so much for someone that hasn't been exposed to the hobby.While I make heavy use of online resellers I don't think they do as good of a job exposing someone to the hobby. It is hard to casually browse online stores. They seem to be more of a destination site than a browse and let me see what catches my eye type site.So I think they certainly contribute to sales, but possibly at the risk of increasing the hurdle to "wandering" into the hobby.</blockquote>