What about the PDF's? And what is the "Online Model"

[Jek]

What will happen to the PDFs? Will people still be able to buy them? Will they be free, or even available at all?

What is the "online model" mentioned on the press release? Are you (or WotC) still going to produce cool gaming content (for D&D)? Will it be in downloadable form, or just a link you click on? Will it be like Dragon or Dungeon, but in an internet form? Will you have to pay? WHere would it be? And any other information you feel I (or anyone else) may need to know would be appreciated.

Thank you for viewing and answering this.

[Gary Teter]

Back issues, and their PDFs aren't going anywhere.

As for what Wizards of the Coast is planning, you'll have to contact them to find out.

As for what we've got planned, see Pathfinder.

[Wayne Ligon]

Gary Teter wrote:

Back issues, and their PDFs aren't going anywhere.

As for what Wizards of the Coast is planning, you'll have to contact them to find out.

As for what we've got planned, see Pathfinder.

Will PDF content for past issues of Dungeon be produced? What about older Dragon issues (that still exist in your inventory to be scanned)?

[Gary Teter]

We're working on the PDFs as hard as we can.

I don't think we'll do OCR scans, they're not high enough quality. Anyway, the big problem with older issues is securing the rights to produce PDFs, not technical.

[Krome]

Gary Teter wrote:

Anyway, the big problem with older issues is securing the rights to produce PDFs, not technical.

In other words we shouldn't hold our breaths on that one.

[Takamori]

So just to be clear on this, Paizo retains the rights to a large chunk of the previous Dragon and Dungeon magazines, meaning that after your stock of hard-copies runs out (or even before), we can be expecting more PDFs etc.?

About the Monster Ecologies book (which I've been looking forward to), will that all pan out?

Could, theoretically, Paizo produce another Dragon Compendium?

I'm not sure about all the legal issues, so: I lay my questions in your lap.

Thank you for any answers you can provide.

[Gary Teter]

Monster Ecologies should be shipping soon. I've seen a preview copy and it's awesome.

As for further printed books, that's up to Wizards. We're on record there as being rabidly in favor of all sorts of hardcovers, and we're still "best friends forever" with WoTC, so anything's possible.

[Lisa Stevens]

Krome wrote:

Gary Teter wrote:

Anyway, the big problem with older issues is securing the rights to produce PDFs, not technical.

In other words we shouldn't hold our breaths on that one.

Actually, we've hired someone to work on that. It will probably take a while to see results in PDF form, but we're pretty sure you will.