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Guidelines for CDROM/Multimedia Authors
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Walnut Creek CDROM is looking for CDROM and Multimedia authors. If you
have a really cool idea for a CDROM product then I want to hear from you.
What you need to be a CDROM author:
1. A lot of hard disk space.
2. Technical expertise in the subject matter.
What you will NOT need:
1. A lot of money.
2. Technical expertise about CDROMs or CDROM publishing.
I am willing to consider almost anything, but I am especially interested in
original ideas. I already have some ideas for titles that I do not have
the expertise or time to do. Other areas that are popular are educational
titles and discs of technical information. Collections of images are also
very popular.
I am not interested in doing anything of an "adult" nature that I would
have to hide when my mom comes to visit.
Money: I will pay for the mastering and replication of the discs,
production of printed material, advertising, and promotion. I will also do
the formating and one-off production. You will receive a royalty based on
the gross revenue of the sales. This is very similar to the finacial deal
for authoring a book.
Here is how the process works:
1. Send me your proposal.
2. If it looks like a good idea, we discuss it and negotiate a contract.
3. You collect the data, develop the applications, etc.
4. You write everything out to tape and send it to me.
5. I format the data, and make a one-off CDROM, which I mail back to you.
6. You test the disc, and make any changes necessary.
7. When everything is ready, I send the disc off for replication.
8. I place some ads, and do some press releases.
9. We kick back and watch the bucks roll in.
Please email your proposal to discdev@cdrom.com, or you can print it on
paper and mail it to
Walnut Creek CDROM
Attn: Disc Development
1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
All proposals will be considered confidential.