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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 3851602" data-attributes="member: 36160">Not singling you out, you're just the latest to post this <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />While it *is* almost literally nickel-and-diming (actually, it's ten to twenty times worse!), it's also one of the only sensible ways to do this.The only sensible/kind place to charge for the electronic version of a book is in the electronic service; it's probably a fairly common pattern for someone to buy a book but be unable to access a pdf: a child prohibited from making unsupervised online purchases (like anything associated with the DI, say), or a book given as a gift, or so on.Once they do that, they can either charge more for the service monthly, or once per book.If they charge monthly, then you have to pay, whether you've bought this month's book or not. That's a terrible model, really, because I know that I only buy a few D&D books/year, and none in the last two years (though I've had a few given to me by *very* considerate friends!)If they charge per book, then you only pay for what you use. Win!It looks like they're not tying the book downloads to gleemax accounts, which actually annoys me a little bit from a security standpoint: computers crash, credit cards change, and people change their names, but a login on the wizards' own site, with whatever security they have in place, is ostensibly forever. (alpha test notwithstanding <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)It'd allow tracking legitimate loss of .pdfs, people stealing books, and so on, *really* easily.My consulting fee is really cheap, Scott. Consider contacting me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'm definitely less desperate than Klaus. <_<>_></blockquote>

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