Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!unicorn!ogicse!oregon!jmeissen From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org ( Staff OACIS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: FRED FISH CD ROM? Message-ID: <585@oregon.oacis.org> Date: 8 Aug 90 22:22:39 GMT References: <140233@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <26477@snow-white.udel.EDU> <90215.224515JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1962@engage.enet.dec.com> Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR Lines: 29 In article <1962@engage.enet.dec.com> gerber@oldjon.enet.dec.com writes: >On Cost of a Fish CD: > >One of the previous postings quoted the setup for pressing at about $3000 and if >I remember correctly, $5 a disk for pressing. All that Fred would have to do is As my wife is involved with a CD-ROM publisher, I can fairly confidently say that it only costs about $2,000 to master a CD-ROM (maybe a little less), and that production runs $1 to $2 per disk. >get 500 or more preorders for the disk and he >could charge $25 a disk to cover all costs. Each run after the initial >would require about 200 disks per batch to keep the costs down. I think >that we could find many more than 500 people to buy such a disk. The hangup is not so much mastering, but stuffing (documentation), packing, and shipping hundreds of these (I know I won't do it for free) and the fact that NO ONE I know of has a CD-ROM player for an Amiga (well, except Joanne Dow, but you expect her to have one of everything). I think $25 would be fair as a minimum price. If CD-ROM drives were to suddenly become available for the Amiga I might even be willing to do the production and distribution myself for that amount :-). -- John Meissen .............................. Oregon Advanced Computing Institute jmeissen@oacis.org (Internet) | "That's the remarkable thing about life; ..!sequent!oacis!jmeissen (UUCP) | things are never so bad that they can't jmeissen (BIX) | get worse." - Calvin & Hobbes