PDF file security
tymotzues:
There was also a statistic provided in a publication report on the RPG industry which showed respondents to a survey on RPGNow and Drivethru that any form of PDF security (even watermarking for some) meant that they would not purchase the product. The two highest scoring features were password protect (which as mentioned is a bit of a joke) and preventing copy and paste.
Finarvyn:
Quote from: Ron Edwards on September 20, 2011, 06:18:54 AM
I have no way to know how many people pirate them and then don't buy them, or how to separate people in that category from those who wouldn't have bought them anyway, but at least I know that someone downloading a pirated copy isn't automatically a lost sale for me.
And I suspect that folks who obtain a pirated copy and don't buy are probably also folks who don't play the game anyway. When I get a free PDF I look at it and either I buy a real book or forget about it altogether.
Quote from: tymotzues on March 19, 2012, 07:49:43 AM
The two highest scoring features were password protect (which as mentioned is a bit of a joke) and preventing copy and paste.
I agree. I hate both of those. I have bad vision and part of why I like a PDF is so I can blow it up on my computer screen. If I want to use the rulebook in play I copy-paste important parts into a Word file so I can blow up the font size. If I can't do that I don't really want the PDF.
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