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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 4371760" data-attributes="member: 54877">And I suspect this has as much to do with wanting to sell DDI subscriptions as printed books.  The more useful and inexpensive an electronic format is to the typical gamer, the more that intrudes on the related resources (online rules lookup) of the DDI (though, of course, not the additional content).    I get what you are saying, but as written, this is nonsense.  Professionally printed books with good bindings have utility.  It's a different utility than the PDF, but still utility.  I prize utility over aesthetics immensely, and the only time I'll get a PDF is when the hardcover isn't available, I'll very rarely use the book, or the PDF is dirt cheap.  Heck, if there was an option to get most printed books cheaper, with the art removed, and just enough layout to be functional, in nothing but black & white, with a solid cover and the title--I'd get that. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> As for complaining about 3.* pricing, I never said anything about it, on the grounds that if you don't have anything nice to say ... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> OTOH, I don't particular blame WotC for this, or get upset about it.  I just don't buy their PDFs (or anything else they do that isn't a printed product).  I doubt there is a price point acceptable to them that would also be worth it to me.</blockquote>

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