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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2723821" data-attributes="member: 18549">I'm not.  The person in question in this line of argument stated that he had no local game store, and there often are not sample pages available online, or those sample pages are inadequate to provide him with a good idea of what's in the book.  I think that the equivalent of a game-store browse should be electronically provided, especially for companies that expect to do business through on-line purchasing.  In the game store, I can quickly leaf through a book and get a good idea of what's in there.  I'm pretty good at it, and I can usually speed-read the book in under 10 minutes (although I can't do this with electronic documents due to the interface requirements).  I've looked at those Amazon sample pages before.  They're generally only a few pages--sometimes mainly tables of contents--and don't tell me much about what's in the book.  A trialware version would be better.  Maybe make it fairly low-res (but not so much that it can't be read) and maybe black-and-white if it would otherwise be colour.  Maybe give 1 day before the document expires, maybe 30.  But a crippled, due-to-expire version of the document would provide the consumer with all the information they need to make an informed decision on whether to buy, without being itself valuable as a traded item.</blockquote>