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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:

>> Hmmm, this presumes that everyone who bought the DM was an
>> Inform programmer?
>
> Well, um, yes. Or wanted to try it.

Eventually, it's real low on my list at the moment.

> No, I'm saying that that's the critical issue.
>
> If someone tries commercial IF, and only current IF fans buy it,
> then it's not a success for commercial IF. It's just a bunch of
> us standing in a circle, passing $5 or $20 bills to each other.

I agree. I was just trying to point out that my own example shows
that some will probably buy it anyway.

> Okay, but you're not statistically significant. :)

Hmm, you don't work for the IRS by any chance do you? ;)

> I presume you were supporting the venture because you personally
> wanted it to succeed. So did I. (I bought one copy for that
> reason, in addition to the copy I bought to read. :) But that
> kind of revenue stream doesn't scale up.

Something like that. I hoped it might be a successful thing. I could
actually afford it. It was a way to somehow support something I
enjoy. For purely selfish reasons, I was hoping if it went well,
other manuals might be attempted. It was mentioned as a possibility
some time after the first sale run. If a TADS manual is done in a
similar printing, I'll buy at least one of those.

Tom
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