I wonder if Wizards has hit some internal goal for putting these in PDF, like selling out of the print run.This week we get the 3.5 Monster Manual in PDF: link.
That seems quite likely to me, or maybe just "PDF only X months after they were last printed". I think the only 1e hardcovers not already available as PDFs are the ones that were reprinted (MM, PH, DMG and UA). Let's see how quickly the 3.5 core book PDFs are followed by the original D&D, 1e and 2e reprints.I wonder if Wizards has hit some internal goal for putting these in PDF, like selling out of the print run.