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Re: Nibbles Magazines ISO

magnusfalkirk wrote:

Actually if you go to the Nibble web site: http://www.nibblemagazine.net
you'll see that the price of the DVD and the CD collection have come
down, $89.95 for the DVD and $99.95 for the CD's.

Just my two cents worth,
Dean

On Apr 9, 12:16 pm, Sir Fart A Lot <sirfarta...@windycity.com> wrote:


You lose me on what difference it makes on how easy it easy for the
media to be reproduce or how inexpensive it is to make a copy. What the
$140 dollars (or whatever amount) is to pay for the effort the guy put
into the scanning the magazines. That $140 is multiplied by whatever
number of people a reasonable guess would assume are going to actually
buy the product. The number of people is small -  so the price is high.
He spent months and months scanning all this stuff. His months of work
may only result in a few dollars per hour pay for him even at what
seems to be a high price. He is doing us a favor. It does not matter
whether he is putting it on a CD, DVD, or cassette tape, your paying
for the work that is on the DVD - NOT THE DVD ITSELF!


And as the price comes down, the number of sales goes up.

Pricing theory is about finding the price which will, as a
result of this "elasticity" of the market, maximize total
profit.

Since all the effort required to make all the copies (except
plopping a $0.20 DVD in a burner) is already spent, the question
isn't how much trouble it was to create it, but how much it's
worth to the largest number of potential buyers.

Put another way, "sunk cost" is irrelevant.

A well-worn rule of thumb is that the price that marks the
start of the "impulse buy" range is the price of a pizza.  ;-)

So I'm guessing that if the price dropped to $24.95, he'd
sell over a hundred of them--all but $1 + $1 postage would
be *pure profit*!

(BTW, I already bought mine.  ;-)

-michael

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