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<blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 673259" data-attributes="member: 1254">Yeah, shipping and warehousing are a bitch. Last time I checked, there arent any PDF publishers with 1000 unsold copies of a product in their warehouse, which is costing them money. And I also dont remember book trade stores returning PDFs. PDF publishers, your argument is not in cost. There is absolutely no comparison. You cant win on that one.Your argument should be quality. There is no necessary quality difference between print and PDF. A PDF could be (though most arent) just as good as print products. Thus, point to the great PDFs (and there are some) and say &quot;shouldnt that make me worthy to get the advanced release?&quot; But leave the cost argument alone.You know, my first product was a PDF. And I have to say I was shocked. I figured the game industry, an industry catering to a huge percentage of computer literate non-conservative willing-to-try-something-new types of purchasers would be very receptive to PDFs. That just isnt the case. As much as people say they are into PDFs this industry is all about the printed page. We here at ENWorld have a very skewed impression of PDFs. Here, they seem like a big deal. But this is a bad sample. To gamers as a whole they are surprisingly unknown and irrelevant. It was amazing to me to discover that. That is the real reason IMHO that WotC looks differently at print publishers. They matter to the market. PDFs, as cool as they are and as much as I want them to prosper, dont. Hopefully, d20 will help move things in that direction.Clark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orcus, post: 673259, member: 1254"] Yeah, shipping and warehousing are a bitch. Last time I checked, there arent any PDF publishers with 1000 unsold copies of a product in their warehouse, which is costing them money. And I also dont remember book trade stores returning PDFs. PDF publishers, your argument is not in cost. There is absolutely no comparison. You cant win on that one. Your argument should be quality. There is no necessary quality difference between print and PDF. A PDF could be (though most arent) just as good as print products. Thus, point to the great PDFs (and there are some) and say "shouldnt that make me worthy to get the advanced release?" But leave the cost argument alone. You know, my first product was a PDF. And I have to say I was shocked. I figured the game industry, an industry catering to a huge percentage of computer literate non-conservative willing-to-try-something-new types of purchasers would be very receptive to PDFs. That just isnt the case. As much as people say they are into PDFs this industry is all about the printed page. We here at ENWorld have a very skewed impression of PDFs. Here, they seem like a big deal. But this is a bad sample. To gamers as a whole they are surprisingly unknown and irrelevant. It was amazing to me to discover that. That is the real reason IMHO that WotC looks differently at print publishers. They matter to the market. PDFs, as cool as they are and as much as I want them to prosper, dont. Hopefully, d20 will help move things in that direction. Clark [/QUOTE]

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