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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5933935" data-attributes="member: 22779">And, really, even some of the early 3e stuff might be a bit dodgy.  I have no idea how stringent WOTC's accounting principles and legal tracking were before Hasbro bought them out.  It might very well be that there's some iffy stuff buried in the 3e stack as well.Possibly.  I know that listening to a number of presentations on ebooks by various publishers, it's not a cut and dried issue.  Places like Baen Free Library and Tor (to name a couple) have to be pretty careful rereleasing back lists of authors.  You never know what might be lurking in there.  Some poem gets reprinted in a novel and not properly credited and you get a lawsuit.I imagine the same sort of thing can happen in RPG books as well.  Just who wrote some of the fiction in the source books?  Even if there is nothing there, you have to treat every product as a potential risk of copyright violation, which means bringing in the lawyers to vet every single product that goes out the door.  I could see the price of that precluding putting out a lot of the pdf's which I don't think would make the money back - or at least wouldn't make it back in a timely manner.I'm not a lawyer, so, maybe I'm way off base here.  But, I do know that WOTC and TSR have had legal issues in the past.  It only takes one to pretty much blow any profits out of the water for the whole project.</blockquote>