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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6504085" data-attributes="member: 22424">Actually, I don't think this is correct. Because of the subscription model they use, Paizo know that the books that they produce have already sold enough copies to be worthwhile before they send them off to the printer. If the subscriber numbers for a given sub-line drop below that threshold of being viable, they're pretty quick in revising or retiring that line - see their standalone adventures line or the &quot;Planet Stories&quot; fiction line.That subscription model, and the foreknowledge that it gives them, is a spectacular advantage to Paizo - to the extent that if everyone stopped subscribing but instead bought exactly the same products from the FLGS, that might still be enough to kill the company.This is true, except that they are very good at putting the rules material you need online for free on their SRD.Some very few APs are difficult to run without a particular sourcebook (Iron Gods and the &quot;Technology Guide&quot;; Wrath of the Righteous and &quot;Mythic Adventures&quot;), but these are actually the exception.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6504085, member: 22424"] Actually, I don't think this is correct. Because of the subscription model they use, Paizo know that the books that they produce have [i]already[/i] sold enough copies to be worthwhile before they send them off to the printer. If the subscriber numbers for a given sub-line drop below that threshold of being viable, they're pretty quick in revising or retiring that line - see their standalone adventures line or the "Planet Stories" fiction line. That subscription model, and the foreknowledge that it gives them, is a [i]spectacular[/i] advantage to Paizo - to the extent that if everyone stopped subscribing but instead bought [i]exactly the same products[/i] from the FLGS, that might still be enough to kill the company. This is true, except that they are very good at putting the rules material you need online for free on their SRD. Some very few APs are difficult to run without a particular sourcebook (Iron Gods and the "Technology Guide"; Wrath of the Righteous and "Mythic Adventures"), but these are actually the exception. [/QUOTE]

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