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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6367771" data-attributes="member: 40166">How are PDF readers going away? PDF is covered under ISO 32000, which means that for a couple hundred bucks, you can have the official instructions for how to write a program to read PDF files. And because of the clear documentation and the demand, there are quite a number of programs that will display them.On the flip side, DungeonScape has zero third-party support. A third-party program that can view the files can make copies of them, which means that Hasbro will likely at least threaten with the DCMA against any program that does view them. That's a big part of the point of going proprietary, after all. It's going to want to tie books to hardware to prevent them from being copied, which means that it will be hard to copy it to your new tablet. Or it's going to tie books to an account, and then if the online system that holds that account goes away, it's going to get grumpy. At the end of the day, preserving access to books only available through DungeonScape after WotC has canceled the service is going to be worlds harder then just saving a simple PDF file.</blockquote>