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<blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2640807" data-attributes="member: 4275">A) Your statement that &quot;big publishers&quot; arent in the PDF market is flat wrong. Green Ronin, Mongoose, Sword and Sorcery, Malhavoc, Fantasy Flight... if there's a &quot;big&quot; publisher that's not in the PDF market I am unaware of it. B) Your statement about &quot;the future&quot; represents a fundamental lack of knowledge about how RPG companies operate. The &quot;future&quot; is next quarter for most RPG companies. For some it might be next year if they're very prosperous and stable.The simple fact is, RPG companies need every revenue stream they can get. C) Print sales have been trending downward, and the majority of sales are made in the short term. PDF sales are trending up and a well designed PDF product is &quot;ever green&quot;. Barring something major (like 3.5 edition) it will sell forever.All this adds up to making PDF vital to the survival of RPG companies in the current climate.You can *wish* it wasnt like this. Heck I wish that too. But wishing doesn't make it so. You're asking for something companies simply CANNOT (for the most part) afford to do. You cant get blood out of a stone. Companies would go out of business doing what you're asking.Chuck</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vigilance, post: 2640807, member: 4275"] A) Your statement that "big publishers" arent in the PDF market is flat wrong. Green Ronin, Mongoose, Sword and Sorcery, Malhavoc, Fantasy Flight... if there's a "big" publisher that's not in the PDF market I am unaware of it. B) Your statement about "the future" represents a fundamental lack of knowledge about how RPG companies operate. The "future" is next quarter for most RPG companies. For some it might be next year if they're very prosperous and stable. The simple fact is, RPG companies need every revenue stream they can get. C) Print sales have been trending downward, and the majority of sales are made in the short term. PDF sales are trending up and a well designed PDF product is "ever green". Barring something major (like 3.5 edition) it will sell forever. All this adds up to making PDF vital to the survival of RPG companies in the current climate. You can *wish* it wasnt like this. Heck I wish that too. But wishing doesn't make it so. You're asking for something companies simply CANNOT (for the most part) afford to do. You cant get blood out of a stone. Companies would go out of business doing what you're asking. Chuck [/QUOTE]

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