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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sledge" data-source="post: 1490196" data-attributes="member: 9324">I feel the need to chime in here. People bring books to the table.  Right now I'm thinking most people that use materials in a game prefer to actually have an original book, complete with the descriptions and context that may or may not make it online.  Putting stuff on the internet hasn't caused trouble yet, and I doubt it will.  I prefer the computer and have found that the majority of this information on very old books hasn't been put up yet.  The only ones you can find are the lame rip offs of actual books scanned in fully.  I get my pdfs by paying for them.  I will get new hardbound copies of the core books in the near future, because even I, who does everything on the computer and have character spellbooks and feat descriptions all printed out, still want those original books available.  So posting online seems unlikely to me to hurt sales.With regards to copying, I've seen production schedules of small time companies.  By the time the book has been published, converted to OGC only, layed out and sent to the publishers, the first three months will likely be over.  I would expect such a book to only maybe go to the distributors 4 months down the road.  The distributors may not even carry it as they will still have sufficient stock of the original.  Clearly even at their best republished books just won't have any effect on the originals.I think that if someone today released a full online reference document of UA it wouldn't keep me from buying the book.  It's only real influence could be to get me to buy the actual book.I think if publishers would take a breath and let it go they would find that having their ideas published online would only do them good.  My evidence is simple.  I own numerous pdfs and print them out.  One such is Crimson Contracts.  This book is almost completely open content.  I could have asked someone out there to just e-mail me the whole thing, but the company still got my money.  You tell me why I bought it?  I may only use one or two spells, but the book as a whole is very important.  Just reading the stories in it gives me insight into the ideas behind the prestige classes and other items.  Having a simple list merely isn't sufficient.  I need the books.</blockquote>

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