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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tigris" data-source="post: 9851111" data-attributes="member: 7043270">D&D 4e was available as pdf to buy in the beginning. It was removed in 2009 because some pirated copies were coming up on the interenet.Funny thing is that those pdf copies were from printing (as posted above by KnightsVisionCreative) not even from the sold pdfs.In 2015 the 4e (and older versions as well) core books pdf returned for sale (and helped boost D&D sales to not fall below the previous year).Now all 4e material is available as pdf: <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/44/Wizards-of-the-Coast/category/9739/Dungeons--Dragons-4e" target="_blank">https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/44/Wizards-of-the-Coast/category/9739/Dungeons--Dragons-4e</a>I really would love to see the actual numbers for all the D&D years because we know in 2019 21%+ of D&D revenue came from PDFs. (+ because only sales from a single site, but the pdfs were also on at least one othet site available). And this is all material from older versions available since at least 2015. And we also know that in 2009 when WotC removed PDF sales, that D&D revenue had a big drop.Even the drivethru RPG stats are not as helpfull because the 4e rereleases of the core pdfs are new products and not the ones originally available. So it only shows sales from 2015+ not from 2008 when it released.</blockquote>