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<blockquote data-quote="Whisper72" data-source="post: 1492357" data-attributes="member: 17339"><p>Hmmm... I wonder what your views are on the impact that the internet as a medium may have on sales. On the one hand, it is a nice distribution medium (thru Amazon etc. for print books, and thru RPGNow etc. for pdf/pod stuff), but on the other hand, if I type 'dungeons dragons campaign information' in Google, set the type of responses to .pdf, .doc and .rtf, I get an overload of fan-created material and free stuff put forth by publisers trying to lure people to their website.</p><p></p><p>I for one have so much interesting stuff downloaded for free that I do not feel the need to spend all of my hard earned monies on buying tons of books (I already sank way too much money into it, but as for prolly most ppl, mainly TSR/WotC stuff). The whole flood of material floating around gives me a sense of 'lost' making it that I stick to one or two publishers of 'proven quality' and keep it at that. From listening/reading on various groups and boards, I get the sense that I am not the only one with this aproach.</p><p></p><p>This leads me to believe that, although I consistently read that boxed sets etc. are more expensive and disliked by distributors cuz they tend to break/damage easily and customers can't browse them, this type of product with real added value in the form of physical products (good quality handouts, figurines of the monsters in the adventures, things like the tarokka deck in the old Ravenloft expansion boxed set etc.) that cannot be obtained for free through other avenues would be the way forward.</p><p></p><p>Any thoughts???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whisper72, post: 1492357, member: 17339"] Hmmm... I wonder what your views are on the impact that the internet as a medium may have on sales. On the one hand, it is a nice distribution medium (thru Amazon etc. for print books, and thru RPGNow etc. for pdf/pod stuff), but on the other hand, if I type 'dungeons dragons campaign information' in Google, set the type of responses to .pdf, .doc and .rtf, I get an overload of fan-created material and free stuff put forth by publisers trying to lure people to their website. I for one have so much interesting stuff downloaded for free that I do not feel the need to spend all of my hard earned monies on buying tons of books (I already sank way too much money into it, but as for prolly most ppl, mainly TSR/WotC stuff). The whole flood of material floating around gives me a sense of 'lost' making it that I stick to one or two publishers of 'proven quality' and keep it at that. From listening/reading on various groups and boards, I get the sense that I am not the only one with this aproach. This leads me to believe that, although I consistently read that boxed sets etc. are more expensive and disliked by distributors cuz they tend to break/damage easily and customers can't browse them, this type of product with real added value in the form of physical products (good quality handouts, figurines of the monsters in the adventures, things like the tarokka deck in the old Ravenloft expansion boxed set etc.) that cannot be obtained for free through other avenues would be the way forward. Any thoughts??? [/QUOTE]
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