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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MThibault" data-source="post: 469909" data-attributes="member: 7971">That doesn't help the consumer at all - it's just a list of the oldest products (with one or two exceptions). It also probably adversely affects current publishers who find it so much harder to get their product seen by people, which could well be better than anything on that list.So a last 30 days option seems to me to be a much more accurate, and much fairer way to do it.Morrus, What I would prefer (for what it's worth) is a small current hot list (10 ranks, 5 days) so that new products can get their break.  They won't stay up long, and it will fluctuate madly, but if they sell a decent amount they will appear on the more stable Recent Bestsellers list (15-20 ranks, 30 days).  Then if they do really well they will appear on the Year's Bestsellers List (10 Ranks, 12 months).If this industry were as mature (age-wise, I mean) as the literary industry then RPGNow could put up a "Classics" Page that will draw attention to products that are over a year old and still worth browsing.  Of course, the makeup of this list will cause more discussion and controversy than the naming of a Booker panel.  But most bookstores do this.  They will bring perennial sellers out to the aisle displays and shop windows every now and then just to let people know that they have more than the recent bestsellers.  No one really complains if Philip Roth gets onto the prime real estate this week instead of Wordsworth, it is the bookstore's perogative to try and do what it can to sell products.Gamers seem to be a sensitive lot, though, and I can see why RPGnow wouldn't even consider a "soft" classics list.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...2WS-Steve,I think that it was Ray Bradbury who said that for the computer to replace a book it would have to satisfy the three "B"s.  You must be able to read it in Bed, on the Bus and in the Bathtub.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Cheers.</blockquote>

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