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Message: <blockquote data-quote="God" data-source="post: 7680343" data-attributes="member: 4038">That's not an excuse, it's a reason, and not a very good one. What evidence is there that brick and mortar retail stores are a *significant* source of 5E's success? I'm sure they are selling well at local gaming stores, and while those store owners might argue that sales in an electronic format will hurt them, I've yet to see really compelling evidence that is true, or would meaningfully affect overall sales. Where 5E sales appear to be going gangbusters is on Amazon - which is happy to sell anything it can get its hands on in electronic format and could care less about 20th century print-exclusivity.Yeah, we've seen what "some format" looks like - e.g. Project Morningfail and the over-priced software being hocked upthread. Reasonably priced ebooks are not a preference, but a standard offering in modern publishing, gaming or otherwise. Nope, the logic failure is on your end. WotC doing well with 5E does not mean Paizo is doing worse - just that <a href="http://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/32102/hobby-games-market-climbs-880-million" target="_blank">the RPG market is expanding, to the tune of 67% or more in sales in 2014.</a> Erik Mona has been on record <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?2502-Erik-Mona-on-Paizo-Releases-and-D-D-5E-s-Impact#.VfDJFpcgjEQ" target="_blank">saying 5E hasn't negatively impacted Paizo's sales</a>, and it certainly hasn't slowed their release schedule (which is one of several reasons I've mostly hopped off the Pathfinder bus). More faulty logic. Some success without PDFs doesn't mean there wouldn't be more success with PDFs. And just because it is personally inconvenient to me doesn't mean it's not also a bad business decision. And in a market where damn near every new release hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list is available in an ebook format, it's not my opinion that it is an antiquated business model, it's a fact.</blockquote>

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