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Re: Nibbles Magazines ISO
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! 


On 2005-09-20 08:13:58 -0400, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) said:


In article <cWNXe.448$9E2.194@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
Shawn B. <leabre@html.com> wrote:

One well-known way to enlarge the target audience is to lower the price.
That's why there are sales here and there all the time....


You're right the Nibble DVD covers obsolete technology but that is

exactly

what the Apple II is about.


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.  Its not important to me whether the content is an
obsolete resource.  The delivery medium can be reproduced indefinately and
thus, the price is too high for me.  I'll never pay it unless the price
comes down or someone wants to sell theirs on EBay and I'm the lucky winner,
er, highest bidder.  But I have my limits to what I'll pay for a medium that
can be infinately reproduced.  Whether the content is obsolete or not.  I
pay $49.95 for Dr. Dobs complete works, $19.95 for the MSDN/MS Systems
Journal collection, $19.95 for the complete BYTE magazine.  The price is low
enough for me to justify (of course, that is because of the volume the
produce).  But $140 to just too high.  I'll never have it for that but I
don't care.


I agree with you about the price (although I would only be willing to
pay some $30 for it), but not about your motivation.  Do you really only
care about how rare the item is and not about how useful it is to
you when you decide how much you're willing to pay for it?

Assume this DVD was heavily copy protected so nobody could copy its
contents.  And suppose no-one could even read its contents.  Next,
suppose only one copy of that DVD existed, and that the original data
had been destroyed and could not be recreated without a substantial
amount of work.  Finally suppose this unique DVD was in excellent
codition.

If so, that DVD would be a very rare, but useless, item.  How much would
you be willing to pay for such a DVD?  $140?  $300?  More?  Less?


Thanks,
Shawn