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New - FREE - Old School AD&D Netbooks

Started by Kellri, November 28, 2007, 08:22:46 PM

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Black Vulmea

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June 20, 2013, 02:13:40 PM
Quote from: Mistwell;664255Seems like it hasn't maintained much traction over the years.
The fact that Kindle et al. made virtually every book a 'netbook' resulted a speedy obsolescence, I imagine.
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Teazia

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June 20, 2013, 09:49:40 PM
Netbooks are from the 90s, they are kind of like modern day grey market pdfs- (a few were officially allowed by TSR it seems).  I think the OGL pretty much killed them though (at least for D&D).  

Why give the stuff away for free, when you can legally make money off them?
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June 22, 2013, 03:04:28 AM
Quote from: Teazia;664389Netbooks are from the 90s, they are kind of like modern day grey market pdfs- (a few were officially allowed by TSR it seems).  I think the OGL pretty much killed them though (at least for D&D).  

Why give the stuff away for free, when you can legally make money off them?

It was a combination of things: blogging, forums, and self-publishing. All three of these took away one part of what made these kinds of online-sourcebooks work, till there wasn't enough left to make it worthwhile.
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June 24, 2013, 06:46:34 AM
Just wanna bump for a cool topic I never saw until necro'ed. I haz nu bookmarks, yay!

(a sticky for cool links sounds good, but i dunno if it'll get cluttered too fast...)
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