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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1602131" data-attributes="member: 6957">However, while the profitability of PDFs for the smaller comapnies has been well established by RPGNow.com (Who do a great job), the larger companies for the most part ignore that aspect. There are exceptions - Mongoose Publishing has several products that can only be purchased as PDFs, and others use PDFs to make OOP products available.And if you ask most of the larger companies why they don't use PDFs you will likely get one of two replies:1.) It's not worth our time, they don't make enough.2.) It makes it too easy to pirate. (And again, they can document this, how badly it affects sales is debatable (loudly), but the piracy itself is eay to establish.)And as long as they fear piracy then they will demand security, likely in the form of DRM, because it is from an established company (Adobe). People don't like being stolen from, even if it doesn't much affect their wallet. They may well gain more sales from PDFs than they lose from piracy, but there is a knee jerk reaction to being robbed.I do not intend to make any purchases protected with DRM, but I can understand and sympathise with how and why the companies are doing so, as a result I am not boycotting them, nor do I think that boycotting would accomplish more than limiting my purchases to no other effect. My not purchasing the DRMed PDFs is because of their inconvenience - I want to be able to take it to work to print, I want to be able to take it to Kinkos to print if it has color, and I want to be able to reference it on a CD Rom where ever I take it. Not morality, or ethics, or mores, just the inconvenience.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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