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From: mattack@eskimo.com (Matt Ackeret)
Subject: Re: How much it costs to get a CD pressed
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In article <erkyrathDvKrIn.Mrx@netcom.com>,
Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@netcom.com> wrote:
>So if one orders 250 CDs, that's $1000. Selling them for $15, one needs 
>to sell 66 to break even. Well, say 75 once shipping costs are figured 
>in. Counting a small ad in Games magazine, and other costs I'm ignoring, 
>100. The other 150 disks are profit. If they sell.
>
>This is not, on the whole, implausible. 

Someone I know who made an Apple II CD full of programs and such has sold
more than 300 of them, with very little (if any) non-net advertizing, except
possibly an ad in a magazine done mostly by one guy that presumably had a 
pretty low subscription rate.  (In other words, this wasn't Time or Newsweek!)
This was at $60 apiece.

I would think selling that many I-F CDs with a *real* ad in a widely subscribed
magazine would be VERY easy.

Plus, I hope you guys will put more than just Mac and IBM stuff on there.
Figure out how much stuff there is that's generic, and put it on several 
different partitions on the same CD..  For example, HFS, MSDOS, AmigaOS, and
ProDOS partitions... and whoever else wants to get into the product.  I'd
love to put my port of ZIP (or if I finish it, my port of Frotz) on there 
for GS users if the original authors of these programs don't mind.  Hopefully
there may even be a way of getting an Infocom interpreter for 8 bit Apple
IIs on there... or at least include the tools to 'rip out' the interpreter from
an existing 8 bit Apple II game.. (If there wouldn't be any 8 bit Apple II
stuff, then a separate ProDOS partition wouldn't be *needed* as GSs can 
read/write HFS disks with the HFS FST installed.  A ProDOS partition would
still be *nice*, but not strictly necessary to "support" GS users.)

Since a CD holds what, 650 megs, I mean, there's no real problem in making 
all of these types of partitions.. (except maybe AmigaOS.. a Mac can make 
HFS, MSDOS, and ProDOS partitions.. MSDOS is read-only on the GS except with 
third party shell utils.)

Anyhow, this would be great to make a CD full of this type of stuff and
include *everyone* who wants to put a bit of work into it..
-- 
unknown@apple.com		Apple II Forever
These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
