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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Software Sales Strategies vs. Piracy
Message-ID: <566@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 89 00:07:51 GMT
References: <208@crash.cts.com> <21585@cos.com> <345@xrtll.UUCP>
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In article <345@xrtll.UUCP>, mark@xrtll.UUCP (Mark Vange) writes:
> In article <21585@cos.com>, andrews@cos.com (Andrew R. Scholnick) writes:
>> NO SOFTWARE IS SOLD FOR MORE THAN $20.  No matter how fancy.  The two software
>> products currently (Nancy, a spelling checker and Zelda, a print/merge utility)

> Correct me if I'm wrong - and I don't mean to belittle your work - but there
> are widely different documentation and support requirements between
> different types of software.  'small' utilities can certainly be created and
> marketed for much less than Word Processors or Games, but, if the product
> were 'marketted' to it's full potential, you would be heaving much higher
> costs.  I'd like to see how your approach works when your product line
> expands from supporting software to applications.
> -- 
> Mark Vange				Phone Death Threats to:

I think this whole discussion was not complaining about the high price of word
processors, but about paying 50 bucks for a GAME which requires as little
support from the company as anything does, and about getting a lousy game when
your 50 bucks have been laid out.
-- 
James A. Treworgy
jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET