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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 6072734" data-attributes="member: 16077">The problem with that approach is that the FLGS would have to actually function as a store like other businesses do rather than the "gamers hang out here, I stock stuff I like regardless of whether or not it'll sell, and maybe get some sales" model.My nearest FLGS is more a "game and comic" store than a "game store" - sure they've got Pathfinder Society and D&D events, but their bread-and-butter are card games and Warhmammer games.  In fact, their RPG section consists of a single 4-high book case which is half-empty.  Stuff I might want to buy - like Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms?  Not in stock, but they have plenty of old 4e crap sitting there taking up the majority of the space.  Maybe 1.5 feet wide of Pathfinder stuff, some old C&C stuff, some DC and Marvel, and Warhammer RPG stuff.  The stuff sitting prominently displayed in that space?  The Pathfinder and D&D comics.  No way in hell would they manage to pull off being a POD place if they can't manage to stock anything even halfway interesting in print already because of the "it'll eat into my profits" mentality due to competition - how likely would they allow RPGs like Call of Cthulhu, Aces & Eights, Savage Worlds, etc to be POD if they saw people doing POD and decided to just stock hard-copies of them instead?</blockquote>