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<blockquote data-quote="ConcreteBuddha" data-source="post: 172415" data-attributes="member: 3139">I would contend that &quot;college textbooks&quot; are not the same medium as &quot;mainstream books.&quot;Why? 1) College textbooks are not subject to market forces such as supply and demand. Publishers of college textbooks have a monopoly on the books that get used at that level. Students are forced to buy those books to pass the classes. Hence why the publishers can charge larger sums. If you put those exact same books in a Barnes and Noble, they would not and do not sell at those prices.2) College textbooks are not leisure books. All of the books at a Barnes and Noble are leisure books. RPGs are leisure books. Hence why RPGs get &quot;leisure book&quot; prejudice instead of &quot;this is a requirement so I can pass college&quot; prejudice.Yes, I attended college. Yes, I bought the books. But I still would balk at a $60 RPG book. Why? Leisure book prejudice....As per the laminated binder idea:I know the monsterous manual did that in 2ed, and we had a copy, but it was bulky and cumbersome. I want a streamlined, sleek PHB and DMG binder with relevant rules in easy-to-use category dividers, alphabetized skill lists with two skill descriptions on a page, and alphabetized spell-lists in small print with four or more spell descriptions on a page. In essence, make the SRD friendly, get rid of the art, make the binder snazzy, change the print size to fit the relevance of the material, print to the edge of the laminated page, and market it as the handiest RPG tool out there! Ease of use with no dog-eared, soda-stained, broken-binding books!I understand that printing costs would skyrocket, but we are talking about the game-for-high-end-gamers here. Charge $99.99 for this. I would buy it.(Damn, I should be in charge of marketing for WotC...) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ConcreteBuddha, post: 172415, member: 3139"] I would contend that "college textbooks" are not the same medium as "mainstream books." Why? 1) College textbooks are not subject to market forces such as supply and demand. Publishers of college textbooks have a monopoly on the books that get used at that level. Students are forced to buy those books to pass the classes. Hence why the publishers can charge larger sums. If you put those exact same books in a Barnes and Noble, they would not and do not sell at those prices. 2) College textbooks are not leisure books. All of the books at a Barnes and Noble are leisure books. RPGs are leisure books. Hence why RPGs get "leisure book" prejudice instead of "this is a requirement so I can pass college" prejudice. Yes, I attended college. Yes, I bought the books. But I still would balk at a $60 RPG book. Why? Leisure book prejudice. . . . As per the laminated binder idea: I know the monsterous manual did that in 2ed, and we had a copy, but it was bulky and cumbersome. I want a streamlined, sleek PHB and DMG binder with relevant rules in easy-to-use category dividers, alphabetized skill lists with two skill descriptions on a page, and alphabetized spell-lists in small print with four or more spell descriptions on a page. In essence, make the SRD friendly, get rid of the art, make the binder snazzy, change the print size to fit the relevance of the material, print to the edge of the laminated page, and market it as the handiest RPG tool out there! Ease of use with no dog-eared, soda-stained, broken-binding books! I understand that printing costs would skyrocket, but we are talking about the game-for-high-end-gamers here. Charge $99.99 for this. I would buy it. (Damn, I should be in charge of marketing for WotC...) :cool: [/QUOTE]

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