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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5431652" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>I cannot imagine this being remotely worth WotC's time.</p><p></p><p>For the print-on-demand option: Total nonstarter. Any such project will have a considerable start-up cost. You've got to find a print-on-demand provider; hammer out a deal; digitize anything you haven't already got in digital form; get the files to said PoD provider; publicize the new offering; and maintain the relationship. All of this, so that you can put out books for $20+ (PoD is expensive) that anyone can get used on eBay for $10? Sell old issues of Dragon where any given issue has maybe 3-4 people interested in buying it?</p><p></p><p>In a world without eBay, it's conceivable you might be able to scrape a few pennies' profit. In this world--not a chance.</p><p></p><p>For the .PDF option: Piracy issues aside, this might be able to turn a small profit. But Erik Mona posted in another thread about opportunity cost; it's highly applicable here. When you're deciding how your employees should spend their time, it's not enough for a given project simply to be profitable in an absolute sense. It has to be <em>more</em> profitable than all the other ways that employee could be spending his or her time. Otherwise you're leaving money on the table, and right now I don't think WotC has any to spare.</p><p></p><p>If you want stuff from old editions, that's why we have eBay and the like. Every so often I get a hankering to read one of the old books again, and I've never had trouble finding them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5431652, member: 58197"] I cannot imagine this being remotely worth WotC's time. For the print-on-demand option: Total nonstarter. Any such project will have a considerable start-up cost. You've got to find a print-on-demand provider; hammer out a deal; digitize anything you haven't already got in digital form; get the files to said PoD provider; publicize the new offering; and maintain the relationship. All of this, so that you can put out books for $20+ (PoD is expensive) that anyone can get used on eBay for $10? Sell old issues of Dragon where any given issue has maybe 3-4 people interested in buying it? In a world without eBay, it's conceivable you might be able to scrape a few pennies' profit. In this world--not a chance. For the .PDF option: Piracy issues aside, this might be able to turn a small profit. But Erik Mona posted in another thread about opportunity cost; it's highly applicable here. When you're deciding how your employees should spend their time, it's not enough for a given project simply to be profitable in an absolute sense. It has to be [i]more[/i] profitable than all the other ways that employee could be spending his or her time. Otherwise you're leaving money on the table, and right now I don't think WotC has any to spare. If you want stuff from old editions, that's why we have eBay and the like. Every so often I get a hankering to read one of the old books again, and I've never had trouble finding them. [/QUOTE]
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