I‘m not sure if it is a feature on dndbeyond or not, but I haven‘t found it so far: I think it would be extremely helpful if you could scan you actual irl sourcebooks so you can use them on dndbeyond aswell. That would help older players who try to get into online D&D.
Do you mean so scanning the book in would give you access to the digital version of the book and its contents or just allow you to view the scanned in versions of the books?
Assuming you mean the former, in which case D&D Beyond would make no money from that transaction, it would be a bunch of effort on their part to provide a service that would actually reduce their income because so many people would then not buy the sourcebooks in D&D Beyond. It ends up falling back into the category of people wanting free content in D&D Beyond when they buy the sourcebooks irl.
For this to be realistic, WotC (the company behind D&D) would have to pay Fandom (the company behind DnDBeyond) for each book scanned that way. As far as I am aware, it actually works the other way around: Fandom must pay WotC a license for every use which has access to the (non-free) source material.
If you would like to speak to WotC and ask them to start paying Fandom for everyone who buys a paper sourcebook to have access to that content on DnDBeyond, it might be more helpful to speak to them about it instead of asking Fandom to just give you free stuff.
ba moin je pense que il pourait faire que dans l'abonnement que on paye il pourrait rajoutter la numerisation des livre ou just tu paye pour numériser un certain nombre de livre
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I‘m not sure if it is a feature on dndbeyond or not, but I haven‘t found it so far: I think it would be extremely helpful if you could scan you actual irl sourcebooks so you can use them on dndbeyond aswell. That would help older players who try to get into online D&D.
Do you mean so scanning the book in would give you access to the digital version of the book and its contents or just allow you to view the scanned in versions of the books?
Assuming you mean the former, in which case D&D Beyond would make no money from that transaction, it would be a bunch of effort on their part to provide a service that would actually reduce their income because so many people would then not buy the sourcebooks in D&D Beyond. It ends up falling back into the category of people wanting free content in D&D Beyond when they buy the sourcebooks irl.
For this to be realistic, WotC (the company behind D&D) would have to pay Fandom (the company behind DnDBeyond) for each book scanned that way. As far as I am aware, it actually works the other way around: Fandom must pay WotC a license for every use which has access to the (non-free) source material.
If you would like to speak to WotC and ask them to start paying Fandom for everyone who buys a paper sourcebook to have access to that content on DnDBeyond, it might be more helpful to speak to them about it instead of asking Fandom to just give you free stuff.
ba moin je pense que il pourait faire que dans l'abonnement que on paye il pourrait rajoutter la numerisation des livre ou just tu paye pour numériser un certain nombre de livre