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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 1716704" data-attributes="member: 20741">One thing the whole &quot;many buckets&quot; analogy relies on to be a useful analogy relies on a central premise:That's a pretty big leap.&nbsp; It may well be true - but I am NOT taking that one on faith. Moreoever, when it comes to consumer spending, NOT being able to create demand (make more rain) where there was none before for a particular product is akin to a marketing director saying:&nbsp;&quot;Fire me. I have either failed utterly in my task - or I'm telling the truth and, as a consequence, I'm useless. Because no matter what we do, demand is the same&quot;I don't think so.&nbsp; I really don't.&nbsp; There WAS no 10 million dollar plastic miniature market a year ago. WotC created that.&nbsp; That's not simply a big-ass bucket - that's more rain.There are, however, a whole complex series of issues with adventures in this marketplace. A big one that TSR never had to contend with on such a large scale was online piracy.If your products are stripped down cheapy B&amp;W 32-64 page booklets, this is a prime cadidate for a loss of sales to .pdf scans.OTOH, if your product is high value, full color with cool pull out folding maps, this strikes me as something that a .pdf will not be able to capture properly and more of your market is going to want to buy it, than pirate it.Complex times in the RPG biz...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 1716704, member: 20741"] One thing the whole "many buckets" analogy relies on to be a useful analogy relies on a central premise: That's a pretty big leap. It may well be true - but I am NOT taking that one on faith. Moreoever, when it comes to consumer spending, NOT being able to create demand (make more rain) where there was none before for a particular product is akin to a marketing director saying: "Fire me. I have either failed utterly in my task - or I'm telling the truth and, as a consequence, I'm useless. Because no matter what we do, demand is the same" I don't think so. I really don't. There WAS no 10 million dollar plastic miniature market a year ago. WotC created that. That's not simply a big-ass bucket - that's more rain. There are, however, a whole complex series of issues with adventures in this marketplace. A big one that TSR never had to contend with on such a large scale was online piracy. If your products are stripped down cheapy B&W 32-64 page booklets, this is a prime cadidate for a loss of sales to .pdf scans. OTOH, if your product is high value, full color with cool pull out folding maps, this strikes me as something that a .pdf will not be able to capture properly and more of your market is going to want to buy it, than pirate it. Complex times in the RPG biz... [/QUOTE]

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