I Own the main trifecta of DnD books. But I did not order them off of Beyond. I don't want too buy new copies digitally but want the content. There is no way of saying 'I Own This Book'. They could add a Code to the physical book that will be activated on purchase. you can scan/insert it into beyond making you the owner digitally if someone else puts it in after it could send you an email or notification and ask to verify that this person is allowed access.

Nope.

If you want it on D&D Beyond you will need to do one of the following:

• Buy the digital books from D&D Beyond marketplace.
• Use Homebrew tools to recreate the items/options for free, as long as it is for personal use only (will be shared automatically with everyone in your campaign).
• Have somebody in your campaign who has a Master Tier sub and enabled Content Sharing - with some people who have the digital books on here.

Ok. That is less then intuitive but I will do that. Thanks for the help. I still think they should implement what I suggested. (Time to replicate every spell in the handbook.)

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Ok. That is less then intuitive but I will do that. Thanks for the help. I still think they should implement what I suggested. (Time to replicate every spell in the handbook.

 
There's over 300 spells from the PHB that are released as Free Rules so you won't have to replicate them all. 

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I don't want too buy new copies digitally but want the content.

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• Have somebody in your campaign who has a Master Tier sub and enabled Content Sharing - with some people who have the digital books on here.

I highly recommend the above option and just reach out to the D&D community for help with Content Sharing. You can go to your local game stores or go on various social media and ask or help. Some GMs literally paid thousands of dollars for content so their players do not have to, and quite a few generous GMs are more than willing to help fellow GMs out too. If you want to make it easier for others to share content with you, you can try out Master Tier subscription for a month for free (make sure you find someone who can help share content first, and then enable the trial period after they drop a character into your campaign). If you like how Beyond works, I think subscription is like around $6 a month, and you will have access to everything the other person has access to, which could be over a thousand dollars worth of content if they bought all the books.

Additionally, Beyond is only one of four official tools. The other three are Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, and Foundry. Check them out too and see if they fit your needs better. Beyond is the most convenient out of all the digital platforms, but it is probably the worst digital toolset if you plan to do anything slightly niche or more advanced in D&D. If you play D&D casually, Beyond is more than fine. If you plan to do any homebrew, utilize more niche rulesets, or use third party content, I recommend using the other three digital toolsets instead.

People who print the books need to be paid, and people who build and maintain the website also need to be paid. If you want a one-stop-shop-solution for future purchases, you can try buying the digital-physical bundle on Beyond, but keep in mind it is not cheap, and Wizard's record on shipping and handling through the digital-physical bundle is not great either. Expecting workers who print and workers who develop the website to live off of the proceeds of just the physical books is unfair and unrealistic. By the same token, other GMs have already paid for the content and are more than happy to share with you, so there is much less burden on you to feed the developers. $6 contribution a month is pretty reasonable and affordable in my opinion, but if you cannot manage that, I am sure there are GMs with Master Tier subscription who can help with enabling Content Sharing too, but it may take a little longer to find one and it may be on a more temporary basis.

While they could put the codes in the new books (and should), the website wasn'tt owned by WOTC for most of the 2014 era, so it''s unlikely their print runs would shift to account for that.