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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 2089743" data-attributes="member: 20740">I think full color glossy pages are the scheme to get us to pay more.  Hardcover books are much more durable and I will gladly pay the extra 5 USD to get one over paperback.  But artwork serves almost no purpose.  I understand the need to define a book's theme through visuals, but every page being full color and glossy is not necessary or even that wanted.I like the balance some OGL companies have struck (examples Nyambe and Midnight) where the first 20 or so pages are full color, high gloss while the rest is black and white.I've even seen one book (Kingdoms of Kalamar Campaign Setting) that interspersed full color with B&W, though the effect was a bit odd.  The borders of the pages were the same, but the color ones looked a bit out of place since there was only one page at a time in color.So, yeah, I think Hardcover is the way to go except on the thinnest of books (original Psionics Handbook, IMO is right on the verge of going one way or the other)</blockquote>