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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PJ-Mason" data-source="post: 2405875" data-attributes="member: 12285">Thats my point, though. It will change how a lot of publishers craft their business model, but it isn't going to kill the paper and pencil industry. Evolution of society is the only thing thats going kill the P&P industry and thats somewhere in the future. I think small publishers have either already crafted a business model that lets them survive alongside the big boys and high volume requirements or at least they acknowledge that they are "rolling the dice" and that bankruptcy is a possibility thats only a moment away. That will not likely change no matter what happens in the industry. Thats a universal business truth. A lot of small publishers will go online or skip the middle men (in fact a lot of them already do). Remember, a game publisher could skip the distribution and LGSs, mark up their prices to increase their current profit rates and still give the customers a cheaper product, or have less volume concerns and charge the current rates. A lot of them do it out of good will support for distributors and LGSs, not because they'll fall apart if they do (though some think they will). Especially the small ones.Btw, i hope you are not taking this personal. If you run your GS as friendly, informative place that has room for gaming and all the other things that make a great FLGS what it is supposed to be, than i am all for you staying in business and the local gamers keeping you that way. Truly i am.Edited: a bunch of typos. sigh. You know...if ENWorld created some sort of text editor, i might defintely buy a membership!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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