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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 3144656" data-attributes="member: 1335">While I believe you are 100% right, I think that the merger is a good thing for even more esoteric, but ultimately more important (long term) reasons. I'm the guy who was saying that pdfs were the next big thing for rpgs back in May of 2001 when Sue and I cobbled together the Book of Eldritch Might and no one had heard of such a thing. I think the pdf market's success or failure all rides on the ability of those involved to look ahead.Today I'm told that pdfs account for around 10% of rpg products sold. Cool. But what's exciting to me about that isn't that it's grown that much, but that it's that things are going that well and yet there's still so many people out there who think of pdfs as something brand new, or haven't yet started buying pdfs at all. There's a lot of room for growth. A lot. And frankly, I see this merger as a nicely paved road for that growth to happen. Basically, it's one unified voice that can more efficiently market to and educate potential customers as well as new publishers (or, more likely, print publishers still leery of the format, like WotC). These are the things that will grow the pdf market in the long term and I think One Book Shelf will be able to do it more efficiently. I'll be blunt. I think it would be short sighted for a pdf publisher not to be a part of this.</blockquote>