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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5334085" data-attributes="member: 2067">Perfect! Problem solved! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There's the rub.Problem with that from a business perspective is, of course, limited new market potential with expensive new gizmos that are mostly controlled by one or two big companies upon whose whims your entire electronic distribution model hangs. Neither of which are insurmountable, of course, they're just things you'd have to keep in mind if you were going to go that route at this point. In a few years, that might not be true anymore.But, hey, I think we'd all like to see something easily readable with all the benefits of PDF in a cheap, free-market package. It remains something of a holy grail in e-Publishing that hasn't quite been achieved yet, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Those are all pretty much the reasons I buy PDFs, too (and the reasons I make some out of the books I own). I really don't expect more from WotC at present then to fill that niche. I'd generally agree that a better format is probably the logical next step, but WotC hasn't taken this step yet. And for me personally, they wouldn't sell me any more MOBI or ePub books than they sold me PDF books yesterday. I can't use those formats. A lot of the non-techy/mid-class/broke-ass-college-kid community falls into this camp, too (though that might not be true with the next few generations of iPads, forex). But even a broke-ass college kid can afford a $30 book once in a while, and could probably finagle $10 to get it loaded onto the laptop they bought with student loan money. Heck, maybe they'd do both. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> One can dream!</blockquote>

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