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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 3868385" data-attributes="member: 16077">You may think that it is garbage, but, unfortunately, perception is reality.&nbsp; The perception I have (and apparently, so do others) is that there is no good reason for requiring someone to buy a hardcover in order to be able to buy a pdf of the same information.&nbsp; It feels like gouging rather than a choice for consumers because of the requirement to buy a hardcover in order to enter a code to buy a pdf.Is it really that important to require a book purchase prior to selling us a pdf that WotC is willing to lose sales to people who would never buy the book to begin with but would be willing to buy just a pdf?&nbsp; I've bought about half of the current 3.x books.&nbsp; Of the books that I didn't buy, there may have been one or two gems of information that I was interested in but couldn't justify buying the entire book just to get one or two pages out of the entire book.&nbsp; Sell me a relatively cheap pdf and I'd buy every 3.x book as a pdf.&nbsp; Likewise, offer me the ability to buy just the pdf for 4th edition books and I'd buy every one of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 3868385, member: 16077"] You may think that it is garbage, but, unfortunately, perception is reality. The perception I have (and apparently, so do others) is that there is no good reason for requiring someone to buy a hardcover in order to be able to buy a pdf of the same information. It feels like gouging rather than a choice for consumers because of the requirement to buy a hardcover in order to enter a code to buy a pdf. Is it really that important to require a book purchase prior to selling us a pdf that WotC is willing to lose sales to people who would never buy the book to begin with but would be willing to buy just a pdf? I've bought about half of the current 3.x books. Of the books that I didn't buy, there may have been one or two gems of information that I was interested in but couldn't justify buying the entire book just to get one or two pages out of the entire book. Sell me a relatively cheap pdf and I'd buy every 3.x book as a pdf. Likewise, offer me the ability to buy just the pdf for 4th edition books and I'd buy every one of them. [/QUOTE]

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