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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1265723" data-attributes="member: 813">It's hard to take you seriously if you haven't bought any PDFs. I bought a couple before I made the plunge.An excellent statement of the problem. But what's the solution?Complete non-issue. There are far more scanned pirated copies of the PHB than there are pirated copies of even the best selling PDFs. Pirates "win" by amassing the largest collection. They don't care about the content of the books, just the file size.There have been 10-12 times as many downloads of my first free Tuesday Two-Pager as sales of my first book. I don't consider that anywhere near a bad ratio. I'm sure 10 times as many people pick up books in a store as actually buy said book.Layout is a skill just like art and writing. If you don't believe that you shouldn't be publishing.I despise websites that assume how big my screen is and I avoid them if they have little, next page buttons for no reason. I prefer one long giant webpage over modular pages. What does this have to do with what you said? It means, don't assume that everybody wants or needs a screen and a print version. The extra time formatting your layout twice is not made up for with extra sales. PDF buyers, by and large, want content, not complex layouts.There are clauses in the d20 license that prevent the creation of Interactive games. I would not tread close to having computations on OGC take place in a PDF. Providing support files for RPG manager apps? Which ones? All of them? That's not more work, that's A LOT MORE work. And I doubt it has any payoff.Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crud.Half the fun here is being in business on your own. Having no deadlines that you don't set for yourself. Having not to rely on someone you don't know. You yourself state you are thinking of publishing. Why haven't you contacted some of the existing publishers and pitched your idea so they can publish it?EN World is the most popular D&D website around. It's not like they switch to TL Publishing.Thanks. Go buy it. I must admit I knew nothing about marketing 1.5 years ago and did not catch the connotation of "it's just some guy's stuff". The first review on RPGNow even says that. Over time, the title has vindicated itself but given what I know now, I would have given it a better name.Again why aren't you following your own advice and sending one of us a proposal for your product?</blockquote>

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