THe RPG book you've waited for is going to be a PDF only release, do you buy?

[Kanegrundar]

Seeing as how I've spent a small fortune on pdf's, my answer was yes.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

It bugged me quite a bit after my first hard disk crash. It bugged me a lot more after the second. After the fifth, it will get ugly, because then it means buying the whole stuff again.

Five hard disk crashes! That's four more than I've had in the last fifteen years. You have to back that data up in any case.

 

[Wombat]

If the book was only able to be relased as a PDF would you still buy it?

Sure, no problem.

I already read quite a bit on-line (check with my eye-doc about that one...) and have a very sturdy printer for the parts I need to print out.

Buy something only available as pdf? Sure thing, you bet.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

Probably not. I usually buy small under 30 page pdfs and print them out to read them. I can't read dense small text off of a computer screen for very long.

 

[el-remmen]

If it's that or not have it at all. Then probably yes.

What he said.

 

[Voadam]

I only buy pdfs now. And I buy a bunch every month.

Copy and paste is one of my favorite tools. Search is right up there.

I don't license limited viewing rights under DRM though.

The only thing I wouldn't buy would be novels.

 

[Voadam]

An example in action. I like Baba Yaga stuff. I just got Dog Soul Publishing's Folkloric Baba Yaga d20 book that is (I Believe) pdf only.

Of course I waited until it was at a price I was comfortable with before getting it, but with their 50% off anniversary sale it hit that price point for me and I got it.

 

[Turjan]

Five hard disk crashes! That's four more than I've had in the last fifteen years. You have to back that data up in any case.

This won't help you a single bit in case of DRM. It's only transferrable a set number of times. And I'm not sure whether I want to use the same computer in fifteen years.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

This won't help you a single bit in case of DRM. It's only transferrable a set number of times. And I'm not sure whether I want to use the same computer in fifteen years.

I agree totally on the DRM issue. I don't buy stuff that has DRM in it.

 

[Arnwyn]

If the book was only able to be relased as a PDF would you still buy it?

No. PDFs suck.

"Luddites" has nothing to do with it. Of course.