Re: Our very own CD-ROM (was: Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu)

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>>>I guess I'll have check how much small quantity CD-ROM duplication will
>>>cost.  I honestly think it shouldn't be more than $10/disk even with
>>>relatively low volume.  
>>I doubt it. The media alone costs $8 or so (for CD-WO, real CD-ROM does
>>not pay for small volume), and on top of that is what a company charges
>>you for writing them. I doubt it'll be just in the $5 range. If we can
>>sell 100 CDs, it _might_ just drop to say $15 or so per CD ... that
>>would be well under $50.
>I wasn't thinking of CD-WO.  But conventional CD-ROMs.  I believe they do
>volumes as low as 1000, @ less than $10 each.  When the volume gets really
>high, you can get it for like $3 each.

Forget CD-ROM. Mastering costs around $1250. Sure, the actual CD-ROMs are
cheap then ... but what do you do with 1000 Apple // CD ROMs? Noone will
buy them. Heck, we'll be good if we even sell 100 ....

Remember that we have to pay up-front for this. Sinking $11250 into
this just to discover it doesn't sell can't be it, really. I am convinced
that for us, CD-WO is the way to go.

Regards

Soenke
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