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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 3857687" data-attributes="member: 16077">Security can *always* be broken.&nbsp; Better to just offer choices:&nbsp; the basic book, the &quot;deluxe&quot; book with a pdf on CD included for a few more dollars, and just a pdf for an even cheaper price.Something along the lines of:&nbsp; $29.99 (or whatever their price point is) for the basic book, add on another $5 for the deluxe book, and charge $3.99 for just a pdf.I just have a hard spot with the idea that they are currently charging almost book price for their pdfs when it costs them less than a nickel to make a pdf.&nbsp; Sure - they have to spend time and effort laying out the text and graphics, but once the pre-flight stuff is completed, clicking the little Adobe button to distill everything into a pdf is a few minutes of time and a few electrons worth of energy - and they generally have to distill the thing *anyway* in order to prepare things for the printers.Bottom-line - pdf's are something that they have to do *anyway*, so it isn't like someone is sitting down at a computer and clicking &quot;print to pdf&quot; everytime someone orders a pdf online.Stick it on a server, charge a few bucks, and sell a bunch of them.No DRM, no watermarking, no nearly-book price for a pdf.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 3857687, member: 16077"] Security can *always* be broken. Better to just offer choices: the basic book, the "deluxe" book with a pdf on CD included for a few more dollars, and just a pdf for an even cheaper price. Something along the lines of: $29.99 (or whatever their price point is) for the basic book, add on another $5 for the deluxe book, and charge $3.99 for just a pdf. I just have a hard spot with the idea that they are currently charging almost book price for their pdfs when it costs them less than a nickel to make a pdf. Sure - they have to spend time and effort laying out the text and graphics, but once the pre-flight stuff is completed, clicking the little Adobe button to distill everything into a pdf is a few minutes of time and a few electrons worth of energy - and they generally have to distill the thing *anyway* in order to prepare things for the printers. Bottom-line - pdf's are something that they have to do *anyway*, so it isn't like someone is sitting down at a computer and clicking "print to pdf" everytime someone orders a pdf online. Stick it on a server, charge a few bucks, and sell a bunch of them. No DRM, no watermarking, no nearly-book price for a pdf. [/QUOTE]

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