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#1 PinkRose Jan 05, 2011 20:16:41	Does anyone else find it annoying that pdfs are being offered for 100s of the D&D novels, but they stopped selling the D&D game books as pdfs? I had bought everyone of the game books, up to PHB2, in pdf form and the main 3 in paper form. Since they stopped selling them in digital form, I haven't bought any books, in any form. Please, sell them. Find some way to get those to us in some form of digital format. Please.
#2 lokiare Jan 06, 2011 7:10:24	Does anyone else find it annoying that pdfs are being offered for 100s of the D&D novels, but they stopped selling the D&D game books as pdfs? I had bought everyone of the game books, up to PHB2, in pdf form and the main 3 in paper form. Since they stopped selling them in digital form, I haven't bought any books, in any form. Please, sell them. Find some way to get those to us in some form of digital format. Please. Its probably because the novels are not popular enough to be pirated...
#3 Laures Jan 07, 2011 5:06:42	i would guess we will get pdfs again. When tablets become more widely used they will become the perfect toy for players (need cb for my ipad). I wotc will have to find a way to make them secure enought (not that not selling them stopped people from pirating)
#4 lokiare Jan 07, 2011 9:21:47	i would guess we will get pdfs again. When tablets become more widely used they will become the perfect toy for players (need cb for my ipad). I wotc will have to find a way to make them secure enought (not that not selling them stopped people from pirating) Since pirates are scanning the physical books, it doesn't matter how secure they make them, there will always be pirated versions of their books on the internet. They just need to get their collective heads out of the sand and make some money off of willing customers...
#5 Laures Jan 07, 2011 9:32:52	you still need security for the pdfs so the pirats still need to scan the physical books. otherwise you get "liberated" pdfs everywhere.
#6 Jharii Jan 07, 2011 10:11:11	I'd be happy with eReader versions.  My Nook hungers for D&D material.
#7 lokiare Jan 07, 2011 13:09:23	you still need security for the pdfs so the pirats still need to scan the physical books. otherwise you get "liberated" pdfs everywhere. Does it really matter? I mean it delays the 'pirates' until the day of the release of the books, but has no other real effect, except to deprive PDF lovers from being able to legally access their books...
#8 Laures Jan 07, 2011 13:23:13	useally i create my campain notes with latex. thankfully the links in my content, index and (see page ...) are auto generated. scan software can do ocr but i know none that does linking. And complete ocr, links and all these pdf features are what would make pdf books fun, right? so basicly scaning takes time. copying and uploading a pdf does not.
#9 calronmoonflower Jan 08, 2011 14:22:25	I've heard that they where going to start selling novels on kindle. i would guess we will get pdfs again. When tablets become more widely used they will become the perfect toy for players (need cb for my ipad). I wotc will have to find a way to make them secure enought (not that not selling them stopped people from pirating) Since pirates are scanning the physical books, it doesn't matter how secure they make them, there will always be pirated versions of their books on the internet. They just need to get their collective heads out of the sand and make some money off of willing customers... And this is way they should only try to make it as hard to pirate a .pdf file as it is to market a physical book. Any more than that is a waste.
#10 Laures Jan 09, 2011 8:15:21	exactly
#11 lokiare Jan 09, 2011 10:36:14	Just delay the release of the "official" PDF by a week...
#12 bone_naga Jan 26, 2011 17:36:10	useally i create my campain notes with latex. thankfully the links in my content, index and (see page ...) are auto generated. scan software can do ocr but i know none that does linking. And complete ocr, links and all these pdf features are what would make pdf books fun, right? so basicly scaning takes time. copying and uploading a pdf does not. Ok you would have to add in the links manually after the book is scanned and OCR'd, but that's not really a big deal. There are pirated books that have links added in (ironically there are some official ones that do not). I mean really, you create a link to each chapter without much of an investment in time or effort. The scanning and OCR process itself requires almost no time on your part since many of the pirates seem to cut the binding off to get a good quality scan and at that point you can put it in a feed tray and let the hardware/software do the rest. If you want you could go the extra mile to link subsections but if it's OCR'd you can search for whatever part you need to find anyway. And this is only an investment on the part of the person making and uploading the pdf. For everyone else, it involves a couple mouse clicks and then waiting for it to download. Like Lokiare said, if you delay the pdf sales by a week you would accomplish the same thing. All WotC is doing is losing paying customers and possibly encouraging people to engage in piracy since they can't get the pdfs any other way (not saying this justifies it, just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if there were more pirated downloads now than before they stopped selling pdfs).
#13 bone_naga Jan 26, 2011 17:39:59	I'd be happy with eReader versions.  My Nook hungers for D&D material. ^^^This. It would require a greater investment to make ereader versions since you would have to reformat them to make them more readable as opposed to just dumping the entire book layout into a pdf, but I would definitely love this. Another thing, if they do bring back pdfs perhaps they should not cost more than the physical books (I hate to complain about them selling pdfs since I would like them to bring them back, but seriously there is no reason a digital book that has no printing, shipping, or storage expenses should cost more than a physical one off of amazon).