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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 1490638" data-attributes="member: 2209">Generally speaking print books sell an order of magnitude greater than a pdf. whereas for a small publisher 2,000 book sales is good, 200 pdf sales is huge for a small publisher. In general a majority of people prefer a physical book over a computer file.The one time I have heard of online content being a detriment to physical book sales was when Atlas games put their Ars Magica (4th edition I believe) core book free on rpgnow at the same time they announced they would be releasing a revised 5th edition. Lots of people downloaded the free pdf but sales of the print book went down over what their predicted levels were for if they had not released the pdf and made the announcement.John Nephew the president of Atlas games was very open about his number on that marketing experiment but even he could not isolate the impact of having it 100% free as a pdf or the announcement that it would soon be made obsolete by a new edition that drove down sales of the physical book. He did conclude that the two combined drove down sales of his print book and he did not plan on releasing the 5th edition book free as a pdf.</blockquote>