But I feel Paizo have got this right compared to WOTC.
That is the benefit of Paizo having an outlet through which they sell their products and no one else gets a piece of the "pie" - it would be pretty cool if WotC also ran their own webstore and sold product directly so they could even think about following along Paizo's approach, but it seems like a long-shot at best given they've already made a deal with someone else to run a webstore for them and deals with brick-and-mortar stores to favor those stores over other possible outlets for their products.
No but he is right in that Paizo own and operate their own web store. This gives them the flexibility to use the pdf sales / ownership as a check to see if the user has already purchased the content. WOTC have a license agreement in place with OneBookShelf (dmsguild.com) and you would not think they would want to out-source the system that all other digital systems would need to use to check in on people's license ownership.
I didn't say it was. I said Paizo is able to make the arrangement they have with Realm Works because they aren't sharing the money customers pay for purchases direct from Paizo with anyone else - so they have a larger profit per unit sold to do with as they please, such as by including perceived freebies (like PDFs when you pay for a hard copy at roughly the same price point as someone would spend on the same book despite that Paizo sold it to distributors for a small enough amount that they marked it up to make their own profit, sold it to a store, and then that store still payed so little for the book that they can turn around and sell it to a customer at or below the MSRP while still making a profit of their own).
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No but he is right in that Paizo own and operate their own web store. This gives them the flexibility to use the pdf sales / ownership as a check to see if the user has already purchased the content. WOTC have a license agreement in place with OneBookShelf (dmsguild.com) and you would not think they would want to out-source the system that all other digital systems would need to use to check in on people's license ownership.
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I didn't say it was. I said Paizo is able to make the arrangement they have with Realm Works because they aren't sharing the money customers pay for purchases direct from Paizo with anyone else - so they have a larger profit per unit sold to do with as they please, such as by including perceived freebies (like PDFs when you pay for a hard copy at roughly the same price point as someone would spend on the same book despite that Paizo sold it to distributors for a small enough amount that they marked it up to make their own profit, sold it to a store, and then that store still payed so little for the book that they can turn around and sell it to a customer at or below the MSRP while still making a profit of their own).