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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6304748" data-attributes="member: 22424">Why on Earth would WotC care what discounts Amazon offer? They (WotC) get the same money either way, so the only effect of a discount is that Amazon are denying themselves money to get a sale. (Which, AFAIK is still Amazon's business model - make virtually no profit, but hoover up all the sales to become the biggest guys around.)(Edit: reading it back, that last paragraph feels much more snarky than I'd intended. Sorry. I meant it as an honest question: why would WotC care, if they're getting the same money either way?)The major effect of this fairly-high price coupled with Amazon's huge discounts is that it's going to drive a huge chunk of the "undecided" and "yes, but not at that price" market away from their FLGS and into the arms of Amazon. Which is really unfortunate, especially with a new D&D PHB being the single biggest RPG item for years on either side - that's money few FLGS can really afford to lose. (For a few bucks difference, I can see a bunch of people deciding to get the book 11 days early from their FLGS; for $20, I really can't see it.)(I have other issues with Amazon, but those are getting into the political and so this isn't the place. And, of course, I'm probably going to buy from them myself - I don't pretend to be without hypocrisy.)</blockquote>