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Subject: Re: Anyone trying to market IF commercially?
From: argus@see.the.sig (T Raymond)
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Andrew Plotkin was overheard typing about:

> There's an obvious difference between those two tasks:
>
> Selling a few hundred DMs to a few hundred RAIF/RGIF readers is a
> success. That's what you wanted to do. You were able to promote
> the product to nearly 100% of the target audience (Inform
> programmers) just by posting to the newsgroup.

Hmmm, this presumes that everyone who bought the DM was an Inform
programmer? Does that mean we should presume that only IF players
might purchase whatever product might come because of this line of
discussion? I can't answer that second question. As for the first, I
bought one, and I don't program in Inform. Go figure.

Just my 5% for nothing...

Tom
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