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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 1824239" data-attributes="member: 7635">I think your wrong, and here's why... I don't game in front of my computer. I do not own a laptop, PDA, or other sort of electronic portable gizmo. My eyes grow tired from reading even the most elegant long text on a computer screen, and I'm not dragging my monitor into the john while I think about my next NPC.... So that means to get the most use out of my product, I need to PRINT it out. I can go to a publishing house to do so, or I can print it off my printer. Both cost additional money.  Lets say I download Frostburn. Now, I go and pay $35.00 for the PDF. I copy it to a CD and print it at Kinkos for $16.00*, and place it in a binder for $2.99. I've added almost twenty dollars to the cost of my PDF and made the total price $64.00 roughly. OR I can print it myself for a four dollar ream of paper and the better part of a inkjet cartridge (@ 30 dollars for my Lexmark). OR I can go to FLGS and buy it for $34.99. OR I can order it off Amazon for $20.45 right now. Either way, the latter is cheaper and the quality of my print is much higher.  The only way PDF's or E-books are going to work is if in the next 10 years, handheld CPUS become more economical and commonplace. Until then, I still think PDFs will be a fringe item in the world of RPGs. I would rather spend the 30 bucks to buy a fully done PHB than waste 30 bucks printing a bland SRD document into a three-ring binder.</blockquote>

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