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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5189938" data-attributes="member: 71571">They DO have a way to make money:  Sell hard copies.  To say that they're somehow failing in doing so by failing to spend money to make PDFs is naive and not looking at the whole picture.Hard Copies -are- the means to compete with a pirated copy, because a PDF lacks a lot of the Hard Copy's advantages-- you can pass it around a table, lend it to your friends, and it doesn't require equipment that costs 10 times the original text.Thus, hard copies have that 'You could pirate, but you need to buy it to get these features.'  DDI also has that same feature.  PDFs do not... you buy a PDF from wizards, it's no different than a PDF you pirated that someone else bought, except for the legal threat that frankly doesn't come to the end user of the pirated goods.The fact is, they tried it, it failed, and instead of living in a dream world where it should have worked, instead, look at what happened, and base any theories on how it -could- work on how it -did- work and what went wrong.At the end, they decided to spend zero dollars, not enable piracy, and not compete with their own primary revenue source.   Any idea anyone else has involves them spending money.  As a business, I can see why they chose to stop spending money in that direction.Hell, as far as we know, the decision might not even be related to the above.  It could be as simple as 'It costs us ten thousand dollars to produce a single pdf and we made ten thousand dollars in sales.'  THAT is reason enough not to do it.</blockquote>

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