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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5981330" data-attributes="member: 2067">I think Next will probably have some sort of e-publishing.The thing is that &quot;smart devices&quot; and apps and the like are, at the moment, primarily an upper-middle class (sub)urban technophile's playground, and not much else. It's expanding -- it's bigger than it was 5 years ago! -- but it's still fairly limited. If all of your customers are upper-middle class technophiles, no problem. If you'd like to reach a broader market than that, you can't limit your approach to a smart device app.Computers are fairly reliably middle-class appliances at the moment, and anything you can do on a website would work fine (and have the added benefit of working on any web-connected smart device). It would offer you less control and more exposure to potential piracy, but I think even paranoid legal teams at this point should realize that the way to combat piracy is to provide an economical alternative, not to stop providing it. If you let people buy PDFs for $1-$5, they'll line up to do it. If you offer folks a subscription for $10/month for access to the entire D&amp;D library, you're going to get a lot of folks on board. Yeah, some stuff will probably get scraped, but if your price point is low enough, the normal consumer is going to take the easy legal official option over the questionable virus-ridden download option. WotC needs to not fear piracy. They also need to not fear open source, but that's a different conversation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5981330, member: 2067"] I think Next will probably have some sort of e-publishing. The thing is that "smart devices" and apps and the like are, at the moment, primarily an upper-middle class (sub)urban technophile's playground, and not much else. It's expanding -- it's bigger than it was 5 years ago! -- but it's still fairly limited. If all of your customers are upper-middle class technophiles, no problem. If you'd like to reach a broader market than that, you can't limit your approach to a smart device app. Computers are fairly reliably middle-class appliances at the moment, and anything you can do on a website would work fine (and have the added benefit of working on any web-connected smart device). It would offer you less control and more exposure to potential piracy, but I think even paranoid legal teams at this point should realize that the way to combat piracy is to provide an economical alternative, not to stop providing it. If you let people buy PDFs for $1-$5, they'll line up to do it. If you offer folks a subscription for $10/month for access to the entire D&D library, you're going to get a lot of folks on board. Yeah, some stuff will probably get scraped, but if your price point is low enough, the normal consumer is going to take the easy legal official option over the questionable virus-ridden download option. WotC needs to not fear piracy. They also need to not fear open source, but that's a different conversation. ;) [/QUOTE]

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