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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ipissimus" data-source="post: 4076737" data-attributes="member: 41514">Break down the numbers. I live in Australia. In order to get a book down here from the US, they either have to ship it, which takes 6 weeks, or airmail it. Shipping's cheaper but it's still a big wad of cash. Once it gets here, a shop has to buy it and make a profit, so he adds on his cut. The Government tacks on 10% Goods and Services Tax on top of that, it all adds up.I'll admit that the exchange rate has gone up from a woeful .6 against the US to a heavenly .9, but shipping, storefront and tax still don't make up for that. The reason the books are so cheap from Amazon for me is that less people are taking a cut of my money.According to what they're saying about DDI now, they will be giving DDI subscribers full access to all the rules sets, updated with content from the expantion books.Noooooo. The new X-Box is better than the old X-Box because it has better processing power. I'm willing to upgrade to the X-Box 360 because it gives me a better gaming experience. I'm not talking about gaming experience here, just the price and when I crunch the numbers, this is what I get.Ok, you're the second person who's said I'm going to buy the new books. Why? I've still not heard anyone give one coherent reason that I should buy any books at all if DDI gives me all the rules for the price of my subscription.Yes, I'm crazy. I like to be optimistic. Evidently, that makes me bugnuts. And no, I don't put the pdfs into my figures... BECAUSE I DON"T NEED THEM! According to the information we're getting, DDI will give me full access to all the rule sets! Go read some of the DnD Experience blogs, dude.Ah, ok, so they could be lying. If they are, they're going to look like the supreme asses of the universe after these latest announcements. Now, I'm not saying I'm going to hop in without considering the deal, nor am I going to stay in DDI if what I find isn't what they said they'd give me. There's a word for doing that, what was it... oh, that's right, illegal.Also, please remember, we're also talking about the company that gave away the SRD FOR FREE. One of the reasons I never bought the 3.5 books was that I could get most of the rules changes without paying a cent. They knew what they were doing back then: technically, it's in their best interests to encourage the game's proliferation rather than stifle it through backstabbing their own market base.Piracy and book-sharing are here to stay. The only way you're ever going to police that is by turning democracy into a facist totalitarian reigime. But people who do pirate or book-share really do it for the simple reason that they wouldn't buy the book anyway, for various reasons. Make the rules CHEAPER or give them some sort of access and you'll get more people on board. More people you get on board, the more money you make... basic economics, dude. Sell many units cheaply rather than less units at a higher price.</blockquote>

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