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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 4877774" data-attributes="member: 29206">Sorry for not responding to this earlier, but ENWorld is too laggy for me to actually post messages at all anymore, 80% of the time.Nonetheless, I have to call balderdash on this just a little - almost no physical RPG product has ever had a single release date. Despite that 4e books currently all come out on Tuesdays, various friends of mine *consistently* see new 4e D&D books first popping up in their local stores either the Friday before or the Monday after. A member of RPG.net who lives in Japan also routinely receives his copies two weeks or so before the release date, if I recall correctly.Anecdotes and data are different, but I've been given to the impression that this is fairly common in the book trade in general, and especially with RPG books.As a result, for anyone who could routinely receive a print copy before the official release date, there was never such a thing as 0-day piracy, and for anyone who always gets shafted by shipping or whose local gaming store is slow to get new releases, 2-day piracy and 0-day piracy are identical.Mongoose has a fairly good plan going with its policy of releasing PDFs a month or so after the print copy, though. It makes it essentially certain that no pirated copies will be available for that first month, because almost no one would bother laboriously scanning their copy of a print book if a simpler and likely better alternative was due to arrive in a month or less in any case - and while I don't buy that there's much of a difference between 0-day and 2-day piracy, that a goodly portion of the sales of a 3rd-party splatbook happen within the first month would not shock me at all.</blockquote>

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