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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9397000" data-attributes="member: 6801228">And how will you buy their product digitally from the beginning if you don't know about the product in the first place? You keep insisting you can replace physical sales with digital, but you can't explain how they will accomplish the same sales goals in the process. Heck, as someone pointed out earlier, FLGS and Big Box stores like Wal-MArt buy the Core Books from WoTC to sell. So they are actually replacing guaranteed sales of their product with uncertain sales of their product. That is an additional bad decision on top of the point I've been arguing.Solely? Sure they don't rely solely on it. But they do happen and they do plan for them, and your solution seems to be thinking that they simply will stop caring about that potential revenue. And as for something like an FLGS, WoTC is basically getting someone to buy their books and do their advertising for them. Will that continue to be true if they cut those people out and refuse to sell them products to sell? I don't think so.The cost of print or digital for books is mostly upfront, and the same whether you print the book or not. And as MULTIPLE people have told you, long-standing, high-volume customers for print factories get major discounts and are way cheaper than you might think. You also may be accounting for the DVD itself, but not the paper insert or the plastic case, which are also part of the cost of manufacturing a DVD (which most games don't even make. They sell a code written into the cardboard.)</blockquote>

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