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

[cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <behrenss.749904295@hphalle6>,
Soenke Behrens <behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
>fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>
>>> stuff about CD-ROM... [..]
>>$50 is quite steep for a CD-ROM IMO, consider it will be containing 
>>PD/freeware/shareware mostly.  The thought of moving Apple // development
>>stuff to it is cool though ( licensing, of course ), and that may be 
>>more justified with $50 price tag.
>
>Licensing shouldn't be that expensive, I guess ....
>
>>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.
>
>Regards
>Soenke

And also, how stingy can you get, for crying out loud - the disk will
contain helluvalot of software on it. Just two average-priced shareware
products cost more. Yes, I know, you have to pay for them anyway*, but..

* This raises an interesting problem. Since you can't erase stuff from a
CD-ROM, will you have register and pay for all that bloody shareware??
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