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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man-thing" data-source="post: 1890792" data-attributes="member: 12012">Hi,I've been doing a lot of thinking about pdf's that are published for gaming, and I've bought PDFs since late 2001.  To date I have purchased 300+ products from Rpgnow and a few from DTRPG and I love them. I think I'm averaging 4 or 5 pdfs to every printed book I've bought. They are my gaming books.  When I plan adventures I go to them first and then check my game shelf.However, I'm annoyed by the term PDF. To me these are e-books.  To refer to them as strickly a PDF undervalues them as material, reduces their inherent value, and ignores the benefits of the medium.I think it also makes it easier on some people's conscious to steal material if it has an innocous name that refers to a simple file.  I hear many people talk about how they would never steal music and yet they have tons of mp3 that they've gotten of others.  In the same token people wouldn't shoplift a gaming book for a store but he a few pdfs that someone has scanned.  Its still theft but its easier to sleep at night because it a file and not something physical to be caught with.The PDF publishing market deserves a lot more respect than they recieve.  Their material is always available to us when we have forgotten something at the last minute, it is easy to use and more often then not as attractively layed out and present as many print books, there easier to carry with you and go where you need to, and often they are underpriced for the material contained.We need to value this portion of the RPG market more and it needs to respect itself more as well.I believe that we should no longer have publishers of PDFs but instead have these publishers be publishers of e-Books which is what they truely are.</blockquote>

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