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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3371525" data-attributes="member: 10177">4 years ago I hated pdf's. Now I like them enough to own a 100 or so. However, companies like WOTC need to realize that they are the ones making pdf's lose to print. That is stupid. I still prefer print. So I'll buy print first. In fact the vast majority of pdf's I own are not in print, even though more are becoming available via outlets like lulu.com.So what I am getting at is that most (I'll wager 95% or more) consumers are like me, they prefer print. So if WOTC wants to sell pdf's to people like me they need to make it financially pretty enough for me to buy both.So if they make pdf's available at say 50% of retail (like Monte did with Ptolus), I will likely buy a few pdf versions, especially of monster manuals and books with lots of spells in them. If they were to make pdf's 30% of retail I'll be very likely to buy a pdf version of every book I own in print. PLUS, if they release pdf's ahead of their print versions I'll buy the pdf (assuming the 30% retail price) to see if I want the print version. Otherwise I'll wait and see what is said about it, and likely never buy them until/unless I find an awesome deal on eBay.That would also be a way to battle the "eBay effect" and a portion of the "Amazon effect". If people are like me and buying pdf versions straight from them, it will offset revenue lost to eBay and maybe even Amazon. They will get at least the pdf sale from me (still assuming 30%) because I would rather pay that for a pdf of a book that may well be of very limited use to me, than wait to see if I can get it off of eBay. If I like the book a lot I'll then buy the print from Amazon. So WOTC gets the pdf money and their cut from an Amazon sale.Right now, they occasionally get an Amazon sale from me, and lose their revenue from me to eBay sellers. Considering I have all but about 10 3E books (Eberron and the Environment books), they have lost a fair amount of revenue, especially when you consider I am far from a unique consumer.So hopefully WOTC will start taking a real look at the pdf market and start realizing what it can do for them. Especially if they quit making pdf's compete with print.</blockquote>

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