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- From: rmah@panix.com (Robert Mah)
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.023348.3195@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:33:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.165626.293@physc1.byu.edu> <1992Dec18.124705.11418@tdb.uu.se> <1992Dec21.174045.7669@usl.edu> <1992Dec21.191238.28334@netcom.com> <1992Dec22.204703.27957@kth.se> <bobert.725146974@godzilla>
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- In <bobert.725146974@godzilla> bobert@informix.com (Robert Murphy) writes:
-
- >In the U.S., a software company typically gets only 30-40% (or less) of the
- >suggested retail price; the rest goes to the distributors and dealers who
- >get the product to the customer.
-
- Actually, the margins for a software publisher is around 50% -- even for
- very small companies. You can sometimes even get 60% margins. It all
- depends on how powerful you firm is, how many units you're going to move,
- how expensive each unit is and what kind of co-marketing deals you have
- going with the distributors and/or retailers.
-
- I used to work for a small software firm (less than $5 mil in sales), and
- we were able to get 55% margin at times for a product with a retail price
- of $295. I'm not sure, but I don't think our sales staff was imbued with
- an excess of genius.
-
- Cheers,
- Rob
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