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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6799423" data-attributes="member: 8461">Leaving aside the issue that it's a good reason if the author felt that it was - namely, that the good reason was that it made the book work - that leaves aside the issue of convenience versus necessity. The author could very much have felt that those materials didn't have to be there, but were simply more convenient in doing so (e.g. not having to cross-reference the PHB).Except that it's not axiomatic that the book will necessarily cost more because of that; you're operating under the presumption that that's necessarily so, when there's nothing to prove that that's the case, especially since there's no 240-page version of the PDF without that material for you to make the comparison to. How do you know that the 320-page PDF isn't being sold at the same price it would otherwise, and the author isn't simply willing to take the (altogether minor) loss in order to provide you with 80 pages worth of bonus content?Saying &quot;I'm losing money because I have to buy all of this book instead of just the parts I want&quot; doesn't strike me as being a reasonable argument.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 6799423, member: 8461"] Leaving aside the issue that it's a good reason if the author felt that it was - namely, that the good reason was that it made the book work - that leaves aside the issue of convenience versus necessity. The author could very much have felt that those materials didn't [I]have[/I] to be there, but were simply more convenient in doing so (e.g. not having to cross-reference the PHB). Except that it's not axiomatic that the book will necessarily cost more because of that; you're operating under the presumption that that's necessarily so, when there's nothing to prove that that's the case, especially since there's no 240-page version of the PDF without that material for you to make the comparison to. How do you know that the 320-page PDF isn't being sold at the same price it would otherwise, and the author isn't simply willing to take the (altogether minor) loss in order to provide you with 80 pages worth of bonus content? Saying "I'm losing money because I have to buy [I]all[/I] of this book instead of just the parts I want" doesn't strike me as being a reasonable argument. [/QUOTE]

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