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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 1563333" data-attributes="member: 957">From where I'm sitting the economy is doing great.&nbsp; Meaning I am doing much better financially than I was when Wild Spellcraft came out.&nbsp; I bought Wild Spellcraft and was a big proponent of all things PDF at the time.&nbsp; Now I basically do not buy PDFs at all.&nbsp; PDF publishers seem to have fooled themselves into believing that the value of an electronic product is the same (or near to) as the value of a printed product.&nbsp; Prices of PDFs seem to be far higher than they were.&nbsp; And it seems to me that sales are much lower.&nbsp; What was the price of Wild Spellcraft during that first month vs the price of EoM revised now?Anyway, my point is that when you bring e-publications into the mix, you change the discussion significantly.I really think that we were at or below the normal baseline before Aug 99.&nbsp; Then we had a giant boom period.&nbsp; As was predicted from the beginning, that boom had to end some time.&nbsp; I think it lasted longer than expected.&nbsp; And I still think that things are a lot better now than they were in June 1998.&nbsp; They just are not at the super heights they were in June 2000.&nbsp; So I think it is wrong to lament that we are going back down toward &quot;normal&quot;.&nbsp; We should celebrate the several years of boom that we had and are still benefiting from today.&nbsp; And we will continue to benefit from it in the future.&nbsp; I certainly choose to be positive about what has happened.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 1563333, member: 957"] From where I'm sitting the economy is doing great. Meaning I am doing much better financially than I was when Wild Spellcraft came out. I bought Wild Spellcraft and was a big proponent of all things PDF at the time. Now I basically do not buy PDFs at all. PDF publishers seem to have fooled themselves into believing that the value of an electronic product is the same (or near to) as the value of a printed product. Prices of PDFs seem to be far higher than they were. And it seems to me that sales are much lower. What was the price of Wild Spellcraft during that first month vs the price of EoM revised now? Anyway, my point is that when you bring e-publications into the mix, you change the discussion significantly. I really think that we were at or below the normal baseline before Aug 99. Then we had a giant boom period. As was predicted from the beginning, that boom had to end some time. I think it lasted longer than expected. And I still think that things are a lot better now than they were in June 1998. They just are not at the super heights they were in June 2000. So I think it is wrong to lament that we are going back down toward "normal". We should celebrate the several years of boom that we had and are still benefiting from today. And we will continue to benefit from it in the future. I certainly choose to be positive about what has happened. [/QUOTE]

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