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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blakk" data-source="post: 2277291" data-attributes="member: 28495">If the books we purchase were a table or a car, then PDF's are the do it yourself version. now a days we purchase things and have to assemble them ourselves when we get home. this greatly cuts down the price of the purchased item. you pay less for self service gas than you do for full service, cause your not paying labor costs. pdf's cut out all of the costs generated after you create your content. What People are forgetting is that the company that creates the PDF only has to create ONE PDF. The consumer is buying a copy of that one book. the consumer has to eat the printing costs over time every time they print the book. they eat the cost of material and time too. In the end this is the best way to go. because the consumer is given much more flexibility when they buy the pdf. Theres no publisher trying to keep its writers "barefoot and pregnant" to deal with. the writer is fully and finally in control of his destiny. On that note. this process will also put a halt to the indentured slavery pervasive in the dnd world. A ton of people who would make good content cant because they cant live off of the pittance offered by publishers. the writer has to pay his due's in the form of higher levels of theft. More people will have stolen copies of his work than they will legitimate ones. Im not condoning stealing but I am saying this its inevitable, and may help to minimize a greater evil:crappy content. you all have bought books that have been simply crappy. this process of stealing from whoever made the book in the first place sucks, but should exponentially accelerate the time it takes for companies who make crappy content to bite the dust. it sucks for the guy who is making good stuff and still getting ripped off, but i guess that the price to be paid.</blockquote>

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