D&D Online Books: The Road to Neverwinter

[Dire Bare]

I clicked on a banner ad on WotC's site for the new Neverwinter computer RPG due late 2011 . . . . and in addition to a sample chapter of R.A. Salvatore's next novel, "Gauntylgrym" . . . there is a link to the "Road to Neverwinter", a preview ebook for Neverwinter and Gauntylgrym.

The interesting thing about it is the format!!! It is an ebook hosted through special software interface, and not a PDF!!!

Check it out! Could this be the future of D&D ebooks? I hope so! I enjoyed both the preview book itself and the format!

 

[UngainlyTitan]

A link would be nice, I cannot find it, though I have found Gauntylgrim novel page.

 

[Festivus]

Neverwinter Book 1

 

[UngainlyTitan]

The biggest issue I would have with it is that even zoomed to max on a 17" landscape monitor I can barely read it even with my glasses on.

Some of us old fogies do not have the eyesight we used to have.

 

[Derulbaskul]

I was pleasantly surprised that I could print it to PDF. I thought that would have been disabled.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Wow, thats pretty awesome. The booklet looks great, and that electronic reading device... *ponders*. There is a link for back issues....

Yes, the zoom is not nearly enough, but if this is the format for .pdf reading, i can live with that. Please Wotc bring this to Nook or Kindle...

 

[Rabulias]

Wow, thats pretty awesome. The booklet looks great, and that electronic reading device... *ponders*. There is a link for back issues...

The reader is from Texterity (Digital Editions for Magazine Publishing by Texterity) and made for reading magazines online, so I think the Back Issues tab is part of the software, and not necessarily placed there by Wizards.

 

[falcarrion]

This looks to be a players guide for the game.
Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book I can be preordered as a Kindle Edition.
Many of R.A Salvatore's book are all ready as Kindle books.
And with the Kindle app you can also read them on an Ipad as well.

 

[Dire Bare]

This looks to be a players guide for the game.
Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book I can be preordered as a Kindle Edition.
Many of R.A Salvatore's book are all ready as Kindle books.
And with the Kindle app you can also read them on an Ipad as well.

All true and good points . . . . gah, my initial post not only lacked the link but was unclear. I don't see this as a potential platform for WotC novels, but for WotC RPG books, like the classic D&D PDFs that were formerly available with vague promises of "we have plans" to bring them back at some point.

While this particular promotional ebook can be printed, it probably wouldn't be hard to disable that feature if WotC wanted to for a more substantial ebook.