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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1773492" data-attributes="member: 2855">This is also being discussed over on rpg.net and one poster there reminded everybody of Steve Wieck's comment about WW's pricing their products near MSRP because they did not want to hurt their print book sales.This got me to thinking that perhaps the pricing policies (note: the publisher can set prices, but if they don't, then DTRPG does) are the way they are in order to try an eventually kill the PDF market, and drive for more print product sales. Just unfounded speculation, I know, but however small, it is still a possibility. However, I personallly feel that PDFs are going to be a major asset of the future, and that the DRM and silly pricing practices can only hurt. It makes me think of a company that is trying to prevent advances in order to keep their business model intact, something that has happened time and time again over the years (i.e. the VCR).As most folks know, I work for ICE. Well, we started selling PDFs (with zeal) about the same time as DTRPG, but ours do not contain DRM, and our pricing policy is to price the PDF at about 50%-60% of the MSRP. I am happy to say that not only has our PDF business been doing well, but also our print sales have slowly been increasing as well. I occassionally check out kazaa for ICE products, and over the past several months have actually seen a decrease in the number of ICE products. To me this says that the majority of the piracy has been because of an unfulfilled need. We now fill that need with high quality, non-DRM, fully usable PDFs, and our sales have gone up because of it and I believe that the piracy of our products has gone down.</blockquote>

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