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<blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 4156262" data-attributes="member: 5202"><p>It's all a matter of percieved value. I don't personally see paying full price for a pdf compared to the physical book as sane or something to be a valid expectation. You get to save on printing costs and distribution chains and I still pay just as much for something I will not be able to physically hold? Heck no. </p><p></p><p>From what I can recall of standard percentages involving distribution, companies make half or a bit under the cover price when selling to the distributor, then the store and distributor share that other half for their profit margins. In which case, selling pdfs for half cover price ala Green Ronin should net the same or slightly better margin than selling physical copies in stores. So WotC is trying to get people to pay full price for pdfs that basically doubles their profit value per item. </p><p></p><p>Great for the bottom line, yet I know where he's coming from. There are many people out there that would look at that and say that they could maybe see paying 1/3-1/2 for it, esp if they know from flipping thru it that there's only about 20 pages of content they want from it. Those people will just go pirate it and that's a lost sale. Some people would have NEVER bought it regardless and just pirate it to have it. That is NOT a lost sale. But the ones who look at the 1/2 cover price pdfs and find them to be good value? It was a lost sale from them, they would have happily paid that amount. This is something the RIAA needs to understand too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SSquirrel, post: 4156262, member: 5202"] It's all a matter of percieved value. I don't personally see paying full price for a pdf compared to the physical book as sane or something to be a valid expectation. You get to save on printing costs and distribution chains and I still pay just as much for something I will not be able to physically hold? Heck no. From what I can recall of standard percentages involving distribution, companies make half or a bit under the cover price when selling to the distributor, then the store and distributor share that other half for their profit margins. In which case, selling pdfs for half cover price ala Green Ronin should net the same or slightly better margin than selling physical copies in stores. So WotC is trying to get people to pay full price for pdfs that basically doubles their profit value per item. Great for the bottom line, yet I know where he's coming from. There are many people out there that would look at that and say that they could maybe see paying 1/3-1/2 for it, esp if they know from flipping thru it that there's only about 20 pages of content they want from it. Those people will just go pirate it and that's a lost sale. Some people would have NEVER bought it regardless and just pirate it to have it. That is NOT a lost sale. But the ones who look at the 1/2 cover price pdfs and find them to be good value? It was a lost sale from them, they would have happily paid that amount. This is something the RIAA needs to understand too :) [/QUOTE]
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