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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5765145" data-attributes="member: 22424">Something like Kickstarter, and to a lesser extent pre-orders, could certainly be one of the avenues companies explore. I strongly suspect, though, that they would only work for people who already have a track record for quality and for delivering as promised and on time. (I know of at least one horror story where it just didn't work out.)For a lot of companies, I can see subscriptions becoming increasingly important. WotC (DDI), Paizo (all sorts of stuff) and ENWorld (WotBS, etc) already use this method to great success. Once again, though, you have to offer something pretty much every month for it to work.And the thind plank will probably be electronic delivery, possibly skewing heavily towards small, low-cost products (PDFs, Apps, etc).I suspect the days of the big, heavy rulebook (maybe except for Core Rules), and possibly of printed RPG material entirely, may are numbered. And it's probably not a very high number.</blockquote>