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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel D. Fox" data-source="post: 4155320" data-attributes="member: 55033">I hate to use old sayings, but you're missing the forest from the trees.Integrating the searchable database through the Gleemax log-in and DDI side would be a home run for their digital initiative. WotC has made some steep promises regarding what DDI can offer, and I can almost guarantee you that WotC won't follow suite with in PDF format releases for 4E for quite some time. They've already stated they've dumped the idea, very likely because they've come to realisation that the DDI product itself can tie directly into the physical product. It's a cross-platform concept. It's an almost diabolical marketing idea, which people will subscribe to; it's entirely win-win for their customers and their ROI.As for Paizo, eBook releases suits them because they're a smaller company...that will likely grow even larger with Pathfinder. PDFs work because they're cheap, effective and easily distributed. On the negative side, PDF releases make piracy even easier. You and I are in agreement there; there is no reason to punish people who will buy the PDF and not distribute it across bittorrent. What I propose is not elimination of the eBook for WotC, but an accountability policy to help support WotC's digital initiative that extends further than eBook releases.And WotC will succeed. As will Paizo.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel D. Fox, post: 4155320, member: 55033"] I hate to use old sayings, but you're missing the forest from the trees. Integrating the searchable database through the Gleemax log-in and DDI side would be a home run for their digital initiative. WotC has made some steep promises regarding what DDI can offer, and I can almost guarantee you that WotC won't follow suite with in PDF format releases for 4E for quite some time. They've already stated they've dumped the idea, very likely because they've come to realisation that the DDI product itself can tie directly into the physical product. It's a cross-platform concept. It's an almost diabolical marketing idea, which people will subscribe to; it's entirely win-win for their customers and their ROI. As for Paizo, eBook releases suits them because they're a smaller company...that will likely grow even larger with Pathfinder. PDFs work because they're cheap, effective and easily distributed. On the negative side, PDF releases make piracy even easier. You and I are in agreement there; there is no reason to punish people who will buy the PDF and not distribute it across bittorrent. What I propose is not elimination of the eBook for WotC, but an accountability policy to help support WotC's digital initiative that extends further than eBook releases. And WotC will succeed. As will Paizo. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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