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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CovertOps" data-source="post: 5199225" data-attributes="member: 65152">This.There are only 3 known facts about WotC not selling PDFs.1)  They tried it and pulled the plug.2)  Some people in the community still want them and can't buy them.3)  If they were to start selling them again they would get some revenue from said sales.What we do NOT know.1)  Was it profitable for WotC to sell PDFs?  NOTE: Profit <> Revenue.In the end the answer to this question is the ONLY answer that matters.  We can speculate about the contributing factors that influence the answer to this question such as: * Do book sales drop more than the gained sales from PDFs? * Are there any contracts or obligations that WotC has with distributors or vendors that may be affected by said reduction in book sales? * What additional problems (litigation, Cease & Desist) crop up as a result of legal copies of their IP being readily available?  Note:  This refers to pirating that would not have happened if they were not selling their own PDFs as some level of pirating will always happen. * Other issues I didn't think of in the 10 minutes I took to write this post.One last thought.  Maybe it was profitable for them to sell PDFs.  The gain in profit could have been so small that it wasn't worth the trouble of any of the issues I present above.Wishful thinking and speculation is not going to prompt WotC to suddenly release to the public what their reasoning was behind the decision that was made.  Whatever the reason, it was not profitable (effort vs. profit ratio) for WotC to sell PDFs of their material.</blockquote>

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