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[kierthos]

Anyone ever used drivethrurpg.com to get gaming books? I'm thinking of ordering the pdf of the new Mage book, but I'd like to hear opinions of how good/bad they are...

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[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

They're pretty good. We use them to sell out Cartoon Action Hour PDFs.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'm probably going to get their watermarked pdf of the Mage book then. Apparently, it puts my name and sale ID# on the bottom of each page as a watermark... which of course, isn't a watermark, but hey, it's not like I don't have ways of removing that if I want to get rid of it. (One of the few merits of working at FedExKinko's is being able to remove silly stuff off of pdf's with a variety of tools available to me. I'll bet it takes me less then five minutes.)

[mithras.livejournal.com]

I believe it also puts your IP address in an invisible font on there.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

If it's invisible, then it's not like anyone can see it, now can they?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

They charge too much and some of the pdfs aren't so useful as they have DRM, but they're moving away from that.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

It's cheaper then the hardcover version and I can print it out at work for free. That's a big selling point for me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

Most of the prices are the same or only very marginally discounted from the hardcopy price - which makes little sense in the PDF market.

You can print for free though, which is good :)

(PS. Buy Bloodsucker ;) )

Sent you e-mail...

[gurgi.livejournal.com]

Check it before buying...

[nash076.livejournal.com]

They're best for out-of-print stuff, like Changeling.

Otherwise, spend the few extra bucks and get a hardcopy.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I can print it for free at work, and make multiple copies. (I'm going to be making a second copy tonight, because I fucked up the printing on the first copy. It's mostly in good shape, but when I printed it, I didn't check to make sure that it would print all on the same type of paper. So, part way in through the book, it switches paper types (what I had in there to cardstock, and then a few pages later, back to the paper I put in there).