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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7725232" data-attributes="member: 6778044">Of course, in the past they were much better, only producing physical books and expecting that somebody else would take all of the risk and expense of, you know, opening a book store.Most books nowadays are available in print, ebook (sometimes multiple competing formats), and audiobook. This isn't really any different, other than they are allowing other companies to share in the profits of their work too.In business, accepting risk also allows you to potentially participate in the profits too.Best I can tell, WotC is collecting a royalty on each sale, instead of requiring a lot of money up front. Making it possible for small companies to either leverage their existing product, or develop a new delivery system that they think is different or better. Even more important, if I were a developer, I'd drop any possibility of developing a product is WotC was funding one of my potential competitors. They seem to have a very fair approach.I don't see how they are premised on multiple purchases. If you use Roll20, then purchase it once. No need to purchase it more than once. There's no content that is held back. If you want a hard copy, then it's probably easiest to buy the book(s) too, but it's certainly not required. Roll20 could certainly opt to be a reseller of the books too, and offer a package book/digital deal, for example.WotC is, at its heart, a publisher, a creator of content. They could opt to be the only source of that content. Then if they decide a digital delivery system is something, they'd do it. If not, then no digital content for you. Or they design a digital delivery system that you don't like. With no alternatives, you're stuck.I also suspect that the folks that own/work for D&D Beyond, Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, etc., are probably pretty happy that they can provide D&D content for their products. I would guess they have much higher sales (and profitability) than without.</blockquote>

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