Re: Nibbles Magazines ISO

[Dan Foster <usenet@evilphb.org>]

In article <cWNXe.448$9E2.194@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>, Shawn B.  <leabre@html.com> wrote:
>
>So true.  I won't pay $140 for the DVD.  I would pay a max of $85...
>why?  Because the DVD medium is not a scarce resource.  I just
>purchased on EBay all the Nibble magazines and Nibble Express issues
>for $300.  Those are indeed a scarce resource.  But the DVD incurrs
>only the cost of media, labor, and shipping.

If I might point out something...

1. Mike Harvey put in 12 1/2 years of his life, money, and even house
mortgage to produce Nibble in the first place. Is he not entitled to
continue to make money off his hard work? Didn't he earn that right?

This is America, where capitalism is encouraged, and fruits of labor
rewarded.

2. Regarding DVD replication costs, I should point out that all these
issues comprises over 16,300 pages, each of which had to be manually
scanned in. No automatic high-speed scanner machine or anything.

I think I'd have been well past fried past the 250 page mark!

I believe a small group of people originally started the project but
later ended the effort, so Mike had to pick up the rest of the work.

Even then, it took him over eight months of work to prepare it.

My calculator indicates that $130 of work done over 8 months works out
to $16.25/mo which is pretty reasonable. Not even my lawn guy is that
cheap. ;)

What is $16.25 per month? About three trips to McDonald's skipped, or
about 5 gallons of gasoline/petrol not bought per month. Surely one
could save up, if the interest was genuine?

The DVD comprises 135 issues of Nibble, which works out to just under $1
per issue, and includes the cost of the DVD media. I still think this is
rather reasonable.

I agree that if you don't see sufficient value in the item to warrant
buying it, then don't buy it -- and wait to see if cost goes down.

That's reasonable to not buy it if you feel the price is too high.

It is, however, not reasonable to say there were zero costs other than
DVD creation and replication-related costs of the finished product.

I have no relationship to Mike Harvey other than as a long-time Nibble
reader and a very satisfied purchaser of the DVD. Yes, the cost made me
wince, but saved up and then went for it. No regrets here.

-Dan