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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3476133" data-attributes="member: 307">And for many people, including me, the advantages of print over digital remain.So now, to enjoy the same benefits I enjoyed with the print version (that cost me $38 per year), I need to buy a more expensive printer, keep it stocked (and restocked) with ink, spend time at home reviewing material to decide what I want to print out, and probably buy an expensive ebook too. And the printed product will be less durable, storable, and attractive that the old print version.Wow. You should never go into sales. With a pitch like that, I don't see how I would ever want something like the DI.Of course, I've already experimented with DI type publications. I used to subscribe to Pyramid. As a print magazine, I liked it. When it went digital, a friend got me a year long gift subscription. Even though it was free I rarely used it. The content was generally just as good. But I could not throw it into my briefcase and read it on the way to work. Or read it during down time at the doctor's office, or while waiting for a game session to start, and so on. Even though the cost of Pyramid is quite low, after the year was up, I let the subscription lapse, because it just wasn't worth anything to me.I get a fair number of magazines: Asimov's Science Fiction and Fact, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Science News, National Geographic and, until September Dragon and Dungeon. I don't get any digital publications - I don't get Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, or Pyramid and so on, even though I like Card's books, and like GURPS. This is not because I don't think I would enjoy the content; rather, it is because the format of a digital publication is nigh useless to me, and a headache to use.You don't mind the headaches, or don't notice them. That's great for you. I do. I suspect that lots of current Dragon and Dungeon subscribers will find themselves in my boat. I could be wrong, but if I were WotC, I wouldn't be gambling to farm on it.</blockquote>

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