| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 6 May 2000 at 12:08:37 |
| Subject: | Re: CDR/Online software distribution (x was 4.3 Gig HD salvaging at one point) |
Don Cox said,
> On 04-May-00, Michael O'Hara wrote:
>>> I'm not adverse to buying CDR's if it is a more viable option.
>>> Anybody else want to give an opinion on this?
>>
>> I'd be quite happy to download commercial software from the net, if
>> the price of a CD-R was knocked off the asking price for the software.
> The price of a CD-R disk is about 70p.
No more than 60p if bought in reasonable quantities. Even Staples sell
them for £30 for 50.
> The labour cost for burning it
> would be much higher, probably about 15 UKP for a one-off. Less if you
> can burn several identical disks at a time, but I expect sales of most
> serious Amiga programs to be around 3 or 4 copies per year.
Provided the download was a straight archive of the original CD.
Creating a copy would be a fairly trivial task. Oh for some good
mastering software with an ARexx port.
Neil
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