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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 3181889" data-attributes="member: 16077">You can keep the PS3 - anybody willing to stand in a line in the cold without the guarantee of getting what they came for is a fool.&nbsp; I don't care how much they can sell it for on ebay, they are still a fool.(snip)Who said you'd *have* to have Eberron stuff?&nbsp; In a perfect world, the books would come with a CD or a password for website access to download datasets for whichever electronic tool had the license to provide them, with a portion of the sales price of the book going to the electronic tool publisher.&nbsp; Provide a trial version of the tool and *sell* the full version of said electronic tool, and provide the datasets for little to no cost.Some who are using the trial version are likely to download the datasets - especially if the cost of the datasets is buried in an additional $1-$2 for the book.&nbsp; *Use* of the electronic version (if it is a good tool) will lead to sales of the full version of the tool.There *are* ways to sell software without it being pirated - make a quality product that is easy to use and is priced right and (most) people won't bother to try and pirate it.There is a reason why people paid for Wolfenstein 3d when it was introduced, yet would (as still do) pirate Adobe Acrobat (full version) and Photoshop - it is called cost-benefit analysis.Likewise, there is a reason why overall tax revenues *go up* when the tax rate is low - it isn't worth the trouble for people to spend the effort trying to hide their money in various tax shelters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 3181889, member: 16077"] You can keep the PS3 - anybody willing to stand in a line in the cold without the guarantee of getting what they came for is a fool. I don't care how much they can sell it for on ebay, they are still a fool. (snip) Who said you'd *have* to have Eberron stuff? In a perfect world, the books would come with a CD or a password for website access to download datasets for whichever electronic tool had the license to provide them, with a portion of the sales price of the book going to the electronic tool publisher. Provide a trial version of the tool and *sell* the full version of said electronic tool, and provide the datasets for little to no cost. Some who are using the trial version are likely to download the datasets - especially if the cost of the datasets is buried in an additional $1-$2 for the book. *Use* of the electronic version (if it is a good tool) will lead to sales of the full version of the tool. There *are* ways to sell software without it being pirated - make a quality product that is easy to use and is priced right and (most) people won't bother to try and pirate it. There is a reason why people paid for Wolfenstein 3d when it was introduced, yet would (as still do) pirate Adobe Acrobat (full version) and Photoshop - it is called cost-benefit analysis. Likewise, there is a reason why overall tax revenues *go up* when the tax rate is low - it isn't worth the trouble for people to spend the effort trying to hide their money in various tax shelters. [/QUOTE]

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