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- From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch )
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Britannica - their obnoxious salesmen
- Message-ID: <62ZwTB3w164w@upchrch.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 04:54:52 EST
- References: <dfeN03Bqb8wt00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL
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- jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
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- > Frankly, I don't see how they can sell any at that price in this day and
- > age. For not much more than that, you can get yourself an inexpensive
- > computer, a CD-ROM drive, and an encyclopedia on CD-ROM. Now you not
- > only have an encyclopedia, but you can play Pac-Man.
-
- I have a CD-ROM encyclopedia and it is very nice, but the CD-ROM
- encyclopedias I've seen are usually based on paper encyclopedia
- like Groliers that aren't as extensive as Britannica and are
- usually a lot cheaper. It is often good enough though. No encyclopedia
- is good enough if you need extensive and detailed information on a
- topic.
-
- > If you already have
- > a computer, you can buy a CD-ROM drive and the encyclopedia CD for less
- > than half the cost of the books. And if you already have a computer and
- > a CD-ROM drive . . .
-
- It is actually sillier tham that. They way the drive bundles work it is
- often cheaper to buy the encyclopdia with a drive than buying the
- encyclopedia CD-ROM by itself.
-
- For example, Insight sells the 1992 Toolworks Encyclopedia by itself for
- $295. It sells a Talon TA-100 internal drive, headphones, the same
- encyclopedia, Toolworks Reference Library and Game Pack II for $279.
- You can also pick 5 other CD-ROMs from a list and buy all 5 for $99
- when you buy a drive.
-
- Now that the CD-I players are coming on to the market and they are
- marketing high-end game machines with CD-ROM drives, I wonder if
- they have or will soon have encyclopedia disks for them?
-
- (If your mail bounces use the address below.)
- Joel Upchurch/Upchurch Computer Consulting/718 Galsworthy/Orlando, FL 32809
- joel@peora.ccur.com {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd,ucf-cs}!peora!joel (407) 859-0982
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