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From: shiffman%basselope@Sun.COM (Hank Shiffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: BUYING SOFTWARE OVER THE PHONE
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Date: 4 Oct 89 04:02:22 GMT
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In article <32835@cornell.UUCP> mlee@cs.cornell.edu (mark lee) writes:
>  In an article in NeXTWeek (inside MacWeek 9/19/89), it was mentioned
>  that NeXT users may be able to BUY SOFTWARE OVER THE PHONE:

That's NeXT's answer to the lack of a cheap software distribution
medium (like a diskette).  Ship a disk every n months with every piece
of software in creation and then use id numbers to unlock the stuff
for which the customer has paid.  One wonders what they do about
documentation...

>  My questions are:
>
>  1. Does anyone know of a Mac software developer or publisher 
>     who sells programs directly to the user over the phone?

Image Club offers a CD-ROM with 600 fonts.  You can get access to all
600 for several thousand dollars.  Alternatively, you can pay $200 for
ten fonts and then call them later on to enable other fonts as you
decide you want them.

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