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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nymrohd" data-source="post: 4748044" data-attributes="member: 59126">To be honest I don't expect an FLGS to do well unless it offers secondary services. It's been said time and again but offering a place to game, secure WiFi access, heck even running a snack bar would help them out a lot. Their product is just not competitive when I can buy it from amazon and still pay less even with delivery costs included. And I'd expect they would be at an even greater loss if WotC started selling products at normal PDF prices (their prices for new products at least were pretty high). But I do understand the retailers. 3PP offering great discounts on their products at this point make sense. They can make a profit from the current publicity of the pdf medium, they can take part of WotC market share, and they can better support pdf retailers which certainly may need help with WotC's withdrawal. But they certainly did not take into account BnM shops and the increasing damage to them if the game keeps promoting ebooks and electronic databases. It may well make business sense to the publishers if they sell more on the net than on print or at least than through BnM shops.I think it goes back to the discussion of whether BnM shops are still intergral to the industry and one of the better mediums to advertise and support the hobby. As I said earlier, I think that with a few modifications to their mission statements they can affirm that position in the future. But a stale format of essentially a book shop with a couple of dusty tables for wargamers and maybe D&D players probably does not cut it.</blockquote>

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