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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dimwhit" data-source="post: 1226246" data-attributes="member: 2576">I certainly think it's a little more than increasing awareness of the existence of quality of PDFs. I think what will help the industry is the get people used to reading PDFs and using them as reference. One thing that hurts, IMO, is offering a product both in PDF and print form. Most people are used to things in print, so when given a choice, they'll go with it. If it's PDF or nothing, and they want the product, they'll go with PDF. I think we need to be developing PDFs that are reader-friendly without being printed out. As people get more and more used to reading on the computer screen, they will be more apt to choose a less expensive PDF file over a print product. This is partly what I'm doing. I offer a PDF e-zine. I don't do a special version to print, but it is certainly printable (just at the 12-pt font and such in the PDF). But I want people to get used to reading on screen. I mainly have short stories, but it's worked quite well. While some of our readers print out the e-zine, most I think just read it on their screen. And that's what I want to encourage. I think this is also the problem in the RPG industry. Over-saturation. There is so much out there from 3rd-party publishers, I think many gamers just say "forget it, I'm only using the core stuff." I don't really know what to do about that.</blockquote>