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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9713039" data-attributes="member: 27957">Let me tell you a story...Once upon a time, my father was a science fiction writer. He won some awards, even. That was long ago, though, and today he's dead and all his books have been out of print for decades. But my frail old mother still gets a small deposit every month, because it's super easy to put digital copies of his old books up for sale. No publisher is going to offer a contract to republish obscure 55 year old novels, but the barrier to entry for digital sales is so much lower. This way she keeps getting a little money, and anyone discovering (or rediscovering) my father's works has an easier option than scouring used book stores.So no, I don't consider having a physical release a requirement. Even print-on-demand is nice but not required. What's scummy and immoral is the schemes where your digital purchase isn't really a purchase, but a long term rental than can be revoked at any point when they take the servers down. That failure state is not an inherent feature of digital only releases and should not invalidate the entire thing.</blockquote>