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From: terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A way to make educational programs pay
Keywords: teachers's copy CD-ROM
Message-ID: <4426@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 14:00:04 GMT
References: <8991@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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In article <8991@chinet.chi.il.us>, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
>    The suggestion is to follow the textbook publishers an have a separate
> teachers's edition of programs that are specific for the educational market.
> Include LOTS of supplementary material.  I mean dozens of megabytes.  Things
> like digitized page images.  Stuff an instructor can use, but instead of
> following the usual imperative to make it as compact as possible, make it
> LARGE.  And put it on CD-ROM.  As portable as the technology allows, so
> the teacher can get maximum use out of it.


I think your idea is interesting, but as a software developer myself, I take a big
risk even printing 100 copies of a paper manual, buying the disks, etc.  It is
expensive to "manufacture" software, just as it is expensive to develop the code...

The costs of putting everything on a CD-ROM would be even worse (at least for a 
single developer...)




Terrell