I think the worst thing about this game is that I would save more money if I just bought the physical book than if I bought the pdf. A pdf should be at least half the cost of the physical book price, and that's just being nice about it.
This. Also, while PDFs do not have nice paper and biblichor, they are searchable and convenient for a lot of people. It's not just a cut-down version of the document, it's just a different version.