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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5576774" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, as others have said, it may well not be enough to warrant the switch. However, note that AV1 in particular seems to be getting pretty hard to find. They aren't reprinting a lot of the older books (maybe not any of them) currently. This may well indicate that at some point they will be putting out a revised set of 4e books.In general, the concept of publishing books on DDI first sounds like a nice theory. It may well work, and they may well switch to such a concept in the future, but it would be a HUGE change in business model. D&D has been successful for the most part over the last 30+ years with basically the existing business model of printing hardbacks and putting out a new edition every 5-10 years, with maybe a modest revision here and there in between. Overturning that business model isn't going to happen overnight. It will be done very cautiously and slowly over time. The first step was having DDI at all. The second step is polishing it and releasing a lot of secondary content there while the whole production workflow and all the other aspects of DDI are tried out and sorted. We might well see a third step where DDI sees the release of all the new stuff first, then it gets revised and published in hardback form, but we also may not. It might just take too big a bite out of sales to do it that way. I'm purely speculating but I would not be surprised if they give it a try in the near future and release a book online first to see what happens.</blockquote>

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