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TALES FROM THE PC
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An extract from a PC disk about electronic publishing and the
success of the PC shareware market! This should provide some
motivation for all you would-be shareware authors! Enjoy, it's
freely copyable stuff! - Andrew Campbell
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SHAREWARE IS THE SECRET
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The shareware concept is the secret to much of the e-book
breakthrough in publishing. Shareware, if you are not familiar
with it, is a method of distributing computer programs in the
widest, most efficient, and lowest cost way by allowing
potential users to try programs before they make buying
decisions. This Kit is largely made up of shareware programs.
If it were not so, you could easily spend nearly $1,000 and
waste a great deal of time trying to find the right tools for
your particular electronic publishing needs.
Since shareware was conceived by the late Andrew Fluegelman, the
founding editor of PC WORLD magazine, it has grown into a
multi-billion dollar business. Now many authors, programmers
and entrepreneurs are earning good and satisfying livings from
shareware. Some are becoming millionaires.
For example, back in 1988 Bob Wallace was exceeding $2 million a
year in sales, and his Quicksoft shareware publishing operation
continues to go from strength to strength. Steve Hudgik - who
has some great information for you in the HOME directory of the
Kit - gave up a $65,000 a year corporate salary to go into
shareware. He tells me that he has never regretted it. He
became so enthusiastic that he wrote a standard manual on this
unique publishing and marketing medium. It describes how 350
other authors generate sales revenue of many millions of
dollars ever year from their creative work. (More details about
Steve's great book, audio tape and other shareware business aids
from him at PO Box 974, Tualatin, OR 97062).
Shareware is an exciting reality - a completely new way of doing
business based on trust that really works. It is poised for
great growth in this new evolutionary step - electronic
publishing, of which you are now able to be a part. Already
some of the most popular shareware products are computerized
book texts.
Of course, shareware may not the route by which you want to
distribute your e-books. You will be helped to decide about
this if you tap into Bob Schenot's considerable expertise in the
SHARE Directory of the Kit. But it is certainly the means by
which you are being able to create and distribute e-books and
other electronic publications to the largest possible potential
markets. There are just no expensive, impressively packaged,
commercial software programs available that will do all the
things that the shareware programs in the Kit can deliver right
to your desktop.