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<blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 2720086" data-attributes="member: 12328"><p>I don't do it; but mostly because I don't know how. I prefer a printed book to a pdf anyway, preferably a hardcover. So, if I were to have an electronic copy of a book I liked for a game I wanted to play then I would want to buy a hard copy. It's cheaper and better than printing. Its a deterrent to me to buy a pdf if I can only get a hard copy by printing it myself or at a print shop. I have purchased pdfs, but I have certainly bought many, many more hard copies of rpg materials. A pdf is just of little use to me at the gaming table. </p><p></p><p>I really like the way Great White Games (f/k/a Pinnacle Entertainment Group) markets their Savage World products for these reasons. A player's guide pdf that I can buy with a site license so that I can print for my players is very valuable to me. Of course, I could just put it on CD, but I choose to print multiple copies at greater personal expense. I don't print it at work because that is theft since my employer does not authorize it. </p><p></p><p>Just because I don't pay for something doesn't make it free. Somebody pays. I don't want it to be the people who keep me supplied with great games to play because they may stop making them if they can't make a living at it. Also, a corporation is owned by its shareholders--real people who lose real money if the corporation loses money. </p><p></p><p>This discussion reminds me of the closure of my FLGS a couple of years ago. People who gamed there, for free, complained that the prices were too high because they could get, for instance, a board game for sale in the store cheaper down the road at a big toy store or their wargaming figures cheaper though family in another country. These same genuises, including an employee, had the nerve to cut the FLGS out of sales and then brag about it while playing those games at that store. Now, the place is gone. It's sad, really. Sad and short-sighted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scourger, post: 2720086, member: 12328"] I don't do it; but mostly because I don't know how. I prefer a printed book to a pdf anyway, preferably a hardcover. So, if I were to have an electronic copy of a book I liked for a game I wanted to play then I would want to buy a hard copy. It's cheaper and better than printing. Its a deterrent to me to buy a pdf if I can only get a hard copy by printing it myself or at a print shop. I have purchased pdfs, but I have certainly bought many, many more hard copies of rpg materials. A pdf is just of little use to me at the gaming table. I really like the way Great White Games (f/k/a Pinnacle Entertainment Group) markets their Savage World products for these reasons. A player's guide pdf that I can buy with a site license so that I can print for my players is very valuable to me. Of course, I could just put it on CD, but I choose to print multiple copies at greater personal expense. I don't print it at work because that is theft since my employer does not authorize it. Just because I don't pay for something doesn't make it free. Somebody pays. I don't want it to be the people who keep me supplied with great games to play because they may stop making them if they can't make a living at it. Also, a corporation is owned by its shareholders--real people who lose real money if the corporation loses money. This discussion reminds me of the closure of my FLGS a couple of years ago. People who gamed there, for free, complained that the prices were too high because they could get, for instance, a board game for sale in the store cheaper down the road at a big toy store or their wargaming figures cheaper though family in another country. These same genuises, including an employee, had the nerve to cut the FLGS out of sales and then brag about it while playing those games at that store. Now, the place is gone. It's sad, really. Sad and short-sighted. [/QUOTE]
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