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<blockquote data-quote="2WS-Steve" data-source="post: 469863" data-attributes="member: 3289"><p>I'm not sure how much the "glut" really factors into things. I buy PDFs fairly regularly and they're so cheap that having too many to choose from isn't a problem. I'm more concerned with just making sure I'll enjoy the product I buy.</p><p></p><p>One thing that might help is re-arranging the site layout a bit; you have maybe 30 products with cover face out then I can't even see the spine on the rest of them; I need to go digging through the site to find anything. Ideally manufacturer web pages and reviews here at ENWorld linked to where to buy should help address this but RPGNow is like a game store and it should be fun to browse through but that's sorta difficult currently.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps ENWorld can actually do some of the work by seperating the PDF product reviews from the print reviews (or having a way to filter for PDFs) so that those already inclined to purchase a PDF cna easily scan through the available products and read quality reviews of them. This might be helped by having more staff reviews of PDFs too since those (and the affiliates) are the guys I trust the most.</p><p></p><p>re: 1) Just doing that might help legitimize PDFs, though I think most people hold back not because they think PDFs are low quality books but because they just want to be able to read the thing on the loo...</p><p></p><p>re: 2) Actually, I suspect this might be one of those rare cases where a monopoly helps a bit since I know exactly where to go to get e-books. Also, the new publisher features RPGNow has introduced are pretty nice so they don't seem to be sitting on their laurels. That said, everyone deserves their shot at dot.com fame and fortune...</p><p></p><p><strong>Sidenote:</strong> I wonder if the PDF customer base is a small group of 500 or so people, 100 of which spend the vast majority of the money and account for most of the sales of everyone's books...</p><p></p><p>On a second sidenote; I know I'm far less likely to buy a PDF if it's going to hit print. Since the companies that consistently publish cool PDFs are frequently getting their books picked up by a print publisher I'm more ready to hold off and just wait for the printed product. I've come to expect that most Nat20 and Ambient books will end up at my FLGS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2WS-Steve, post: 469863, member: 3289"] I'm not sure how much the "glut" really factors into things. I buy PDFs fairly regularly and they're so cheap that having too many to choose from isn't a problem. I'm more concerned with just making sure I'll enjoy the product I buy. One thing that might help is re-arranging the site layout a bit; you have maybe 30 products with cover face out then I can't even see the spine on the rest of them; I need to go digging through the site to find anything. Ideally manufacturer web pages and reviews here at ENWorld linked to where to buy should help address this but RPGNow is like a game store and it should be fun to browse through but that's sorta difficult currently. Perhaps ENWorld can actually do some of the work by seperating the PDF product reviews from the print reviews (or having a way to filter for PDFs) so that those already inclined to purchase a PDF cna easily scan through the available products and read quality reviews of them. This might be helped by having more staff reviews of PDFs too since those (and the affiliates) are the guys I trust the most. re: 1) Just doing that might help legitimize PDFs, though I think most people hold back not because they think PDFs are low quality books but because they just want to be able to read the thing on the loo... re: 2) Actually, I suspect this might be one of those rare cases where a monopoly helps a bit since I know exactly where to go to get e-books. Also, the new publisher features RPGNow has introduced are pretty nice so they don't seem to be sitting on their laurels. That said, everyone deserves their shot at dot.com fame and fortune... [B]Sidenote:[/B] I wonder if the PDF customer base is a small group of 500 or so people, 100 of which spend the vast majority of the money and account for most of the sales of everyone's books... On a second sidenote; I know I'm far less likely to buy a PDF if it's going to hit print. Since the companies that consistently publish cool PDFs are frequently getting their books picked up by a print publisher I'm more ready to hold off and just wait for the printed product. I've come to expect that most Nat20 and Ambient books will end up at my FLGS. [/QUOTE]
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