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From: tim.middleton@canrem.com (Tim Middleton)
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 EE= (This thought actually revitalizes my interest in a text IF CD.
 EE= Activision thinks there's a market, right?)

This and...

 EE= (Footnote: It would have been considerably less if I hadn't made a deal
 EE= with a company that accepts credit-card orders via a 1-800 number.)

This are interesting...

So what are you thinking...? Perhaps you could reach some sort of profit
sharing agreement with various IF authors and slap together a "lost
treasures of GMD" CD and market it through a software company like above?

Seems like a great idea to me... if there is ANY market at all.. and i think
there is... you know there *IS* still computer life *outside* of the
internet... I know several people that are not net-aware and wouldn't have a
clue about GMD if i didn't get stuff off there for them... besides GMD ftp
site and the infocom CD's ... that's pretty well the only source to satisfy
die-hard text adventurists (although i bit a LOT of whatever Activision
sales there are are for the sake of nostalgia...

that and the small flood of AGT adventures (which i wonder sometimes if
didn't HURT the IF market more than help (some were so bad <G>)-- though,
regardless of quality, it did show there was some interest out there) that
hit the BBS scene a few years ago, or whatever...

It is a fairly common practice for marginal markets to band together and
pool resources to try and make a bigger splash in the pond... if there is
any splash to be made at all...

.. interesting ideas... I'll say no more.

Okay one more thing... lesson of Microsoft: marketing is everything.. (-;


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