"Please note that these are copies of the official releases of the book, that I have purchased and are subject to Wizard's of the Coast copyright. A bid on this item signifies that this CD is intended to be used only for easy reference to and as a backup of books you have already purchased."
Winterwords wrote:Xmas-stuff on ebay uk, selling CD copies of 3E manuals.eBay listings
GraysonAC wrote:cap_ap, selling CD's of books.cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& ... 2&rd=1"Please note that these are copies of the official releases of the book, that I have purchased and are subject to Wizard's of the Coast copyright. A bid on this item signifies that this CD is intended to be used only for easy reference to and as a backup of books you have already purchased."Oh, well that makes violating the copyright A-OK then!
GraysonAC wrote:I think what he meant was that the auction would be legal, by UK laws, as long as he makes sure the buyer has an actual copy of every book on the CD.Which, I'm obviously positive the seller is doing..
mbassoc2003 wrote:Like most buyers, I would prefer to spend $50 on an original than buy the PDF. I tend to aboud 3E anyway, but I don't think the availability of all the JG PDFs affected my intent to spens hundreds of bucks buying my collection.
mbassoc2003 wrote:PDFs have their place. There's no way I'm gonna go paging through my JG collection when I've digitised it all. But there's no way you can play with the digital copies either. Even if you print them out.I can see there are guys who buy CDs full of PDFs on eBay, but at the end of the day, if your a DM, you need the books, and if you're a player, you're not gonna be turning up at the table with your laptop.I cannot condone PDFs because I collect them. But I wouldn't buy them. There's no guarantee of quality. That's why I make my own.
GraysonAC wrote:One of the guys I play with has most of the books on PDF - he just carts around his laptop to games, and he can find stuff relatively quickly. I've got PDFs of the books I own on this computer as well, so that I can quickly find stuff that might be hard to find in the books.Still, a laptop is no substitute for a bookshelf
For those of us who played RPGs before home computers were available, there's something very nostalgic and theraputic about thumbing through hardback manuals, or relaxing and reading a copy of Dragon. You justs can't replace that with a 2lbs gadget.
GraysonAC wrote:I prefer to read the book myself, but when you're in the middle of a big combat, finding something in 15 seconds instead of 60 is nice
Papatoetoe wrote:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 47372&rd=1This surely is a no-no?