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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 1771206" data-attributes="member: 14159">$35 for a .pdf of a book going for $24 on Amazon?&nbsp; Selling a book as a .pdf for the same price as it's MSRP, for a DRM'ed (i.e. nearly useless) .pdf?&nbsp; Not to forget that it will probably cost at least another $35 in ink (and that's if your cartridges are cheap) just to print out a copy (assuming the Digital Rights Mismanagement features even let you do that).$35?&nbsp; They can't even blame the high price on the cost of ink/paper or shipping to the stores like they do for physical books?&nbsp; The exact same price as MSRP for a .pdf?Why on Earth would almost any gamer buy this?&nbsp; The only reason I could think of, possibly, would be for an overseas gamer who would find it more expensive to get a copy purchased online and shipped to his home country (which with sources like Amazon and eBay I really wonder how hard that is) than to buy a .pdf and print it out (that ink is going to cost a fortune though).I believe what we have here is guaranteed failure.&nbsp; An unpopular distribution method for a non-core (i.e. lower sales) product with a price scheme that in no way encourages purchasing from that source over traditional or even online sales.&nbsp; I can only imagine this is so WotC can try and ink out a few hundred extra bucks from the dozen or so people who will actually buy this, or it's an attempt to &quot;prove&quot; that online .pdf sales aren't working and not engage in the in the future.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 1771206, member: 14159"] $35 for a .pdf of a book going for $24 on Amazon? Selling a book as a .pdf for the same price as it's MSRP, for a DRM'ed (i.e. nearly useless) .pdf? Not to forget that it will probably cost [i]at least[/i] another $35 in ink (and that's if your cartridges are cheap) just to print out a copy (assuming the Digital Rights Mismanagement features even let you do that). $35? They can't even blame the high price on the cost of ink/paper or shipping to the stores like they do for physical books? The exact same price as MSRP for a .pdf? Why on Earth would almost any gamer buy this? The only reason I could think of, possibly, would be for an overseas gamer who would find it more expensive to get a copy purchased online and shipped to his home country (which with sources like Amazon and eBay I really wonder how hard that is) than to buy a .pdf and print it out (that ink is going to cost a fortune though). I believe what we have here is guaranteed failure. An unpopular distribution method for a non-core (i.e. lower sales) product with a price scheme that in no way encourages purchasing from that source over traditional or even online sales. I can only imagine this is so WotC can try and ink out a few hundred extra bucks from the dozen or so people who will actually buy this, or it's an attempt to "prove" that online .pdf sales aren't working and not engage in the in the future. [/QUOTE]

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