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<blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 1864410" data-attributes="member: 18017">One relevant&nbsp; idea we're trying with the Masters and Minions books is a print-and-PDF package: when you buy the professionally printed book, you get the PDF for free. For the print edition, economies of scale mean that our printing cost per page is quite small due to the large print run, and the lamination of the cover and the perfect-binding of the spine are (IMHO) better than you'd get from a copy shop or most home equipment. And having the PDF as well gives you the flexibility of printing just the pages you need to give to players or to put in a binder, cutting and pasting the electronic text into your own documents, etc.It works the other way too: registered owners of the PDF can upgrade to the print edition just by paying the difference in their prices, which compares favorably to having Kinko's print the whole thing (and gets better covers and binding). So $7.50 will get you the 60-page minotaur PDF; another $7.50 gets you the printed book,&nbsp; which is normally $15. (This is true even if you got the registered PDF for free, like as a thank-you for the server donation drive).Has anyone had problems with Kinko's saying they're not allowed to print a PDF because it's copyright material? Hasn't happened to me, but I've heard stories of Kinko's saying this is store policy and people not being able to convince them that they're rightful owners of the PDF and allowed to print it for personal use.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tav_Behemoth, post: 1864410, member: 18017"] One relevant idea we're trying with the Masters and Minions books is a print-and-PDF package: when you buy the professionally printed book, you get the PDF for free. For the print edition, economies of scale mean that our printing cost per page is quite small due to the large print run, and the lamination of the cover and the perfect-binding of the spine are (IMHO) better than you'd get from a copy shop or most home equipment. And having the PDF as well gives you the flexibility of printing just the pages you need to give to players or to put in a binder, cutting and pasting the electronic text into your own documents, etc. It works the other way too: registered owners of the PDF can upgrade to the print edition just by paying the difference in their prices, which compares favorably to having Kinko's print the whole thing (and gets better covers and binding). So $7.50 will get you the 60-page minotaur PDF; another $7.50 gets you the printed book, which is normally $15. (This is true even if you got the registered PDF for free, like as a thank-you for the server donation drive). Has anyone had problems with Kinko's saying they're not allowed to print a PDF because it's copyright material? Hasn't happened to me, but I've heard stories of Kinko's saying this is store policy and people not being able to convince them that they're rightful owners of the PDF and allowed to print it for personal use. [/QUOTE]

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