Re: Electronic Downloads

On 8 Feb 01, at 18:01, Adam Miller wrote:

> While we're on the subject:
>         Anyone want to speculate on whether or not Wizards will
>         release new
> products as PDFs?  By that I mean straight-to-PDF's rather than
> out-of-date products re-released as PDFs.  I could see such products
> coming down the pipe; they'd be pretty cheap to produce (no printing
> costs) and could be a good way of pumping up current and old lines.
> There's quite a few products I've downloaded I wouldn't pay cover
> price for, but PDF is perfect (I can print the parts I want) and they
> can put out as many products as they used to without too many people
> complaining.  Anyways, I don't know how well their downloads are
> doing, but here's to hoping :)

> Adam Miller


  WotC released an Alternity/Dark·Matter product called Final
Church in this form (PDF only).  I'm not sure how well it worked
out/sold.  I do remember a lot of complaints on the D·M list about
the hassles involved in printing/binding, and one must consider the
problems of the ESD delivery mode.  That is, you limit your
audience to credit card bearing Windows PC users in a limited
area with internet access.  I think, at least as things are now, it's
simpler for them to continue to make old fashioned paper products.

  This doesn't mean that the idea of electronic products doesn't
have merit.  S John Ross and his company Cumberland Games (
www.cumberlandgames.com ), which I strongly recommend
gamers take a look at, seems to do well in that regard.  I have all of
their products, and they're pretty spiffy.  Elements from things like
Points In Space can be adapted to Spelljammer without too much
work.

Cheers,
Matt.


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