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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4758033" data-attributes="member: 158">Only one thing: Those products already exist, and there will never again be new product for those game systems from the D&amp;D brand name holder. (Possible, but not very probable.). So by driving people to a subscription, it's promoting D&amp;D, from the new to the old and everything in between, making it possible to keep producing and bringing in new blood. As it stands, there's NOTHING for pre-3E except the pirate stuff. It may not be the best model, but it's not a bad one, either.I will say one thing, brought up by Ron Blessing and Sean Patrick Fannon on The Game's the Thing Podcast: PDFs aren't lost sales, and they aren't an alternative release channel - they're a value added service moreseo than anything else, and despite what companies want to treat them as. According to Mr. Fannon, One Book Shelf posted record sales in Q1 2009 and OBS plans to offer something new in their business model &quot;based on their research that there is a large section of gamers who prefer both the Print and PDF product simultaneously&quot; (paraphrasing him).If WotC had stuck with the plan to offer free or cheap PDFs with their paper product, I believe they'd have been praised to the skies for it, and likely sold even more books than they did. I just don't see offering yet another little-used format like kindle or e-reader and tracking every person opening their PDF via DRM in Orwellian fashion as a strong business plan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 4758033, member: 158"] Only one thing: Those products already exist, and there will never again be new product for those game systems from the D&D brand name holder. (Possible, but not very probable.). So by driving people to a subscription, it's promoting D&D, from the new to the old and everything in between, making it possible to keep producing and bringing in new blood. As it stands, there's NOTHING for pre-3E except the pirate stuff. It may not be the best model, but it's not a bad one, either. I will say one thing, brought up by Ron Blessing and Sean Patrick Fannon on The Game's the Thing Podcast: PDFs aren't lost sales, and they aren't an alternative release channel - they're a value added service moreseo than anything else, and despite what companies want to treat them as. According to Mr. Fannon, One Book Shelf posted record sales in Q1 2009 and OBS plans to offer something new in their business model "based on their research that there is a large section of gamers who prefer both the Print and PDF product simultaneously" (paraphrasing him). If WotC had stuck with the plan to offer free or cheap PDFs with their paper product, I believe they'd have been praised to the skies for it, and likely sold even more books than they did. I just don't see offering yet another little-used format like kindle or e-reader and tracking every person opening their PDF via DRM in Orwellian fashion as a strong business plan. [/QUOTE]

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