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How does pulling old edition pdfs benefit WotC?
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4755793" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>Its a possibility that overhead exceeded revenue, but none of us have any numbers to say that is probably the case. It was apparently enough profit when there were only old edition pdfs for sale before the 3e ones went up so unless other factors changed, the existence of current edition pdfs did not carry the whole program.</p><p></p><p>Also the new 4e pdfs have overhead that the old edition ones and existing 4e ones do not. Part of the 4e pdf overhead would be the creation of the new files from the print proof ones, uploading them to rpgnow, coordinating the new products with rpgnow, etc. Once WotC decides not to create new pdfs of current products that portion of PDF overhead costs goes away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4755793, member: 2209"] Its a possibility that overhead exceeded revenue, but none of us have any numbers to say that is probably the case. It was apparently enough profit when there were only old edition pdfs for sale before the 3e ones went up so unless other factors changed, the existence of current edition pdfs did not carry the whole program. Also the new 4e pdfs have overhead that the old edition ones and existing 4e ones do not. Part of the 4e pdf overhead would be the creation of the new files from the print proof ones, uploading them to rpgnow, coordinating the new products with rpgnow, etc. Once WotC decides not to create new pdfs of current products that portion of PDF overhead costs goes away. [/QUOTE]
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