Oh go ahead, just shoot the messenger! The poor fellow who strained to the breaking limit to deliver your message!
I have to admit, being softcover puts this one even further down on my priorities list than it was before.
Whereas being softcover would actually put it onto my list, if I cared at all about the content. This whole business of hard cover, color, shiny gaming books is just not recession friendly.
Hardcover is nice but you know what? Softcover or hardcover, I'll buy it anyway. It will have good company with the large number of 4th edition softcovers on my shelf.