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<blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 2926211" data-attributes="member: 14197"><p>First let me state that I am NOT a publisher, but rather a purchaser of many RPG books and even the PDF version of the same book.</p><p></p><p>With the number of errors that we are seeing from publishers, as well as playtesting "flaws" in some systems, I am starting to wonder if the philosophy of releaseing as PDF, letting the product get edited and hacked by the users and then printing the "cleaned" version is starting to look like the better way to do things.</p><p></p><p>I see Green Ronin doing this already (I think the True20 line has been done like this, I could be wrong), but I question why other publishers aren't jumping on this bandwagon.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the people that buy the PDF at a full print price will get the print book for free or at a significant discount once it has been errata'd.</p><p></p><p>In this day and age of electronic publishing in the RPG business, I can see this being a smart way of getting a quality product to print. </p><p></p><p>Maybe some of the publishing people can chime in on this, or even other collectors and readers like myself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catsclaw227, post: 2926211, member: 14197"] First let me state that I am NOT a publisher, but rather a purchaser of many RPG books and even the PDF version of the same book. With the number of errors that we are seeing from publishers, as well as playtesting "flaws" in some systems, I am starting to wonder if the philosophy of releaseing as PDF, letting the product get edited and hacked by the users and then printing the "cleaned" version is starting to look like the better way to do things. I see Green Ronin doing this already (I think the True20 line has been done like this, I could be wrong), but I question why other publishers aren't jumping on this bandwagon. Maybe the people that buy the PDF at a full print price will get the print book for free or at a significant discount once it has been errata'd. In this day and age of electronic publishing in the RPG business, I can see this being a smart way of getting a quality product to print. Maybe some of the publishing people can chime in on this, or even other collectors and readers like myself. [/QUOTE]
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