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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 9212572" data-attributes="member: 6795602">All companies ignore what customers prefer. Customers prefer you to freely give them product in every medium and fully integrated with every digital tool previously in existence, currently in existence and that will ever be in existence, or at the very least to do so at extremely low cost, as a one time payment instead of a never ending reoccuring payment.What I mean is that digital piracy can ultimately lead to more profits for many great quality but less popular products as it serves a function similar to advertising. Not everyone will digitally pirate even if they can, whether that’s morality or potential risk, or etc.&nbsp; So that free advertising of making your product more popular and desirable does increase sales, but if your product is already extremely desirable, then those benefits associated with piracy doesn’t increase sales by much, but it does greatly decrease how many potential customers that might otherwise have bought the product but instead pirated it.There’s also generally more goodwill toward smaller companies, such that people are more likely to want to compensate them for their work.Finally, the value proposition of selling pdfs gives the smaller companies a competitive niche in terms of price point to customer and convenience.&nbsp; Whereas larger companies may view that price point as conflicting with their higher price points in other mediums and then the convenience of the pdf may make selling the product in both physical print and a digital walled garden like dndbeyond or roll20 (or both) less likely.There’s more, but I think you get the picture.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 9212572, member: 6795602"] All companies ignore what customers prefer. Customers prefer you to freely give them product in every medium and fully integrated with every digital tool previously in existence, currently in existence and that will ever be in existence, or at the very least to do so at extremely low cost, as a one time payment instead of a never ending reoccuring payment. What I mean is that digital piracy can ultimately lead to more profits for many great quality but less popular products as it serves a function similar to advertising. Not everyone will digitally pirate even if they can, whether that’s morality or potential risk, or etc. So that free advertising of making your product more popular and desirable does increase sales, but if your product is already extremely desirable, then those benefits associated with piracy doesn’t increase sales by much, but it does greatly decrease how many potential customers that might otherwise have bought the product but instead pirated it. There’s also generally more goodwill toward smaller companies, such that people are more likely to want to compensate them for their work. Finally, the value proposition of selling pdfs gives the smaller companies a competitive niche in terms of price point to customer and convenience. Whereas larger companies may view that price point as conflicting with their higher price points in other mediums and then the convenience of the pdf may make selling the product in both physical print and a digital walled garden like dndbeyond or roll20 (or both) less likely. There’s more, but I think you get the picture. [/QUOTE]

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