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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3869932" data-attributes="member: 2067">Do you mean &quot;included with the price of your D&amp;D Insider account&quot; so that the online library of every WotC D&amp;D book ever released is there, for virtually free, to anyone with a computer?Or do you mean &quot;for an extra $10/month,&quot; doubling the cost of a D&amp;D Insider account, and cutting into everyone's &quot;game expsense account&quot;?You could maybe get away with an &quot;online library&quot; that costs a monthly fee to access, that just carries the books. But realistically, they'd have to price this at about the same price as buying the books each moth would be -- about $40/month. And that's pricing people right out of the books, which are their core business.WotC's business model isn't based on an expensive subscription for online content (yet). It's based on selling books out of bookstores. I don't think it's really that surprising that they're not offering every book for cheaper online than they are offering in the store.Though perhaps it is backwards. Perhaps in 5-10 years, WotC will be selling library access at a $20/month fee, and charging $10 for a print-on-demand service? But that's kind of an extreme overhaul of how their business model works....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 3869932, member: 2067"] Do you mean "included with the price of your D&D Insider account" so that the online library of every WotC D&D book ever released is there, for virtually free, to anyone with a computer? Or do you mean "for an extra $10/month," doubling the cost of a D&D Insider account, and cutting into everyone's "game expsense account"? You could maybe get away with an "online library" that costs a monthly fee to access, that just carries the books. But realistically, they'd have to price this at about the same price as buying the books each moth would be -- about $40/month. And that's pricing people right out of the books, which are their core business. WotC's business model isn't based on an expensive subscription for online content (yet). It's based on selling books out of bookstores. I don't think it's really that surprising that they're not offering every book for cheaper online than they are offering in the store. Though perhaps it is backwards. Perhaps in 5-10 years, WotC will be selling library access at a $20/month fee, and charging $10 for a print-on-demand service? But that's kind of an extreme overhaul of how their business model works.... [/QUOTE]

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