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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6540564" data-attributes="member: 177">I don't see how continuing to do roughly the same thing they always do can be surprising.And also, it isn't surprising, in that they are unlike pretty much any other game publisher out there, in terms of their business position.&nbsp; You should not be surprised that WotC fails to act like a small company, when it isn't one.Not really - I expect the piracy will happen whether or not the PDFs are there.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you don't put out the pdfs, people will scan the books.&nbsp; If you do put out pdfs, people will pirate them.Lacking direct information, we could actually argue over whether the existence of PDFs has any notable impact on piracy.So, take the piracy off the table.&nbsp; It is effectively a non-issue for the discussion.The real question becomes a matter of what WotC wants to sell, and how.&nbsp; How much effort does it take to provide electronic content (and, with Basic, they've shown they actually understand that a scan of the book is not really a suitable pdf format - they'd want to reformat akin to Basic, which takes effort) in which forms (pdfs, apps, or what else?), as compared to how much they think they can make off other expenditures of the same resources.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6540564, member: 177"] I don't see how continuing to do roughly the same thing they always do can be surprising. And also, it isn't surprising, in that they are unlike pretty much any other game publisher out there, in terms of their business position. You should not be surprised that WotC fails to act like a small company, when it isn't one. Not really - I expect the piracy will happen whether or not the PDFs are there. If you don't put out the pdfs, people will scan the books. If you do put out pdfs, people will pirate them.Lacking direct information, we could actually argue over whether the existence of PDFs has any notable impact on piracy. So, take the piracy off the table. It is effectively a non-issue for the discussion. The real question becomes a matter of what WotC wants to sell, and how. How much effort does it take to provide electronic content (and, with Basic, they've shown they actually understand that a scan of the book is not really a suitable pdf format - they'd want to reformat akin to Basic, which takes effort) in which forms (pdfs, apps, or what else?), as compared to how much they think they can make off other expenditures of the same resources. [/QUOTE]

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