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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5431700" data-attributes="member: 8461">There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Dausuul, than are dreamt of in your imaginings. <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=";)" />I'm not so sure that's true. Let's look at the steps you outlined in greater detail.That's roughly the equivalent of calling lulu.com on the phone. Unless WotC has the worst long-distance provider EVAR, this won't register insofar as costs go.In all seriousness, this is a bit more complicated, but not that much more.Presuming it's a professional POD company, they'll likely have set rates, so that's nothing that need be worried about too much.This is the crux of it. Most of the actual time and effort will go into this step. That said, this would clearly be a secondary or even tertiary concern at WotC. We don't need them doing this fast or in bulk - at this point we'd be happy if they were doing it at all.Also, I don't know what goes into having something put into digital form, but I'd presume that if you already have PDFs of something, it won't be that difficult or time-consuming.Which is likely little more than sending some emails.I think you're overestimating this. Beyond the initial announcement of them releasing POD books, there's little need to advertise. And even if they were so inclined, it's little more than a posting on their website."Hey, did we get our check from the Lulu guys this month?""Yeah, it's right here.""Oh good. Make sure it's deposited before the end of the day, okay?""Sure thing."'nuff said.<a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/adm2001-corsair-the-definitive-d20-guide-to-ships/767166?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/10" target="_blank">Here's a link</a> to a 64-page d20 product at lulu.com for $15. And <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/S1-Tomb-Horrors-AD-D-TSR-9022-/370471022677?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5641cb3055" target="_blank">here's a link</a> to an eBay auction of the original 32-page S1 The Tomb of Horrors for $20.In other words, it serves the consumer market just fine to have POD instead of eBay. That's not even considering how eBay doesn't always have what you want, you can get sniped in a bid or see the bidding get inflated (artificially or not), has no real guarantee of quality, etc.That's a pretty major assumption on your part regarding how many people want older issues of Dragon. The only major issue there is that some parts of the magazines - such as the comics - only had their first-publication rights purchased, but not the subsequent-printing rights. That's what got TSR into so much trouble with the Dragon Magazine CD-ROM Archive.Most likely, they'd have to sell copies of Dragon without the pages containing that material, which'd be a bit of a shame.I don't think you're giving the world enough credit...or you're giving eBay too much.That's true, but a lot of what WotC's doing now doesn't seem to be as profitable as they'd like. I and a lot of others here are suggesting that this might be more profitable than you (and they at WotC) realize.You're lucky then, I've had trouble finding things I want on eBay plenty of times. And even more trouble finding the things I want on eBay for reasonable prices in good condition.</blockquote>

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