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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warden" data-source="post: 1214822" data-attributes="member: 11006">It could also be a simple issue of demand and that few of the PDFs out there are actually being snatched up in exchange for a print version.  While some individual titles seem to be doing very well for themselves (with regards to PDF sales, mind you), many others could be just a dime-a-dozen.  If a consumer has to choose between a PDF version and a print version, he/she may just as well pick the good ol'fashioned one that you can touch and flip through.  Once again, the same discussion as before, this can all come down to professionalism in the product market and print costs required by the consumers themselves.I agree with Crothian that PDFs have to find a way to make themselves more useful to the buyer in their own way and simply marketing them as a great tool for GMs who use laptops may not be working.  On the other hand, prices are slowly rising and some who have been trying to swim this upstream battle have been pushed back down river to leave a smaller number of more dedicated professionals behind (me, the fins are still flappin') -- it could only be a matter of time before PDFs are seen as a cheaper alternative that does not require a downgrade in great material.  The irony is that illegal copies might actually be one of the lowest concerns for PDFs in comparison to other online industries because our products are expected to be used by multiple people, so long as they are in the same group.Now that an article has appeared on one of the largest selling periodicals in the market, it may just have to be a simple matter of playing the waiting game and promoting the bugger out of our products.</blockquote>

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