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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5196321" data-attributes="member: 82106">Woah there DS, cool your jets a bit man. Nothing you've said particularly strikes me as completely wrong, but it all does strike me as fairly parochial thinking to a certain extent.Lets get something clear, businesses do things that are antithetical to their own interests all the time. There are a whole lot of possible reasons for that. Arguing that business X is doing something and therefor it must be the right thing to do is like arguing that the guy getting tanked at the bar and driving his car must be able to hold his liquor and its OK because obviously he wouldn't be stupid enough to do that if it was the wrong thing to do, lol.Now, we here sitting in our living rooms chatting on this board realistically don't have enough information to know if the whole "no more PDFs" thing is a monstrous mistake or good business practice. We can theorize all day, but basically we don't know the numbers, we don't know the company's long term strategy or their actual reasoning for doing what they're doing. It is reasonably clear however that in the long run its not exactly forward thinking to take yourself out of what is almost surely going to be the major distribution channel of the future. It looks more to me from where I sit like they saw a problem, someone up in corporate land somewhere got nervous about it and pulled the plug. These kinds of decisions are surprisingly rarely entirely rational. Most business managers are far more worried about making a mistake than passing up an opportunity. Nor do they work on such a rational basis even in terms of purely bottom line decisions as one might think. I've worked for any number of large corporations. Good decision making is actually kind of rare in most of them.</blockquote>

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