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From: gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
Message-ID: <00045@meph.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 90 03:05:09 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.234227.3246@cs.cmu.edu> <11191@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <00940487.15804140@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>,<28083@mimsy.umd.edu> <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>
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In article <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>, sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>In article <28083@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>
>>Musician friends tell me that you can walk into a CD house with a digital
>>master tape, plunk down $2000, and walk out with a digital master tape
>>and 1000 CDs.  This means that the cost is $2/CD for very low volumes,
>>hence only lower for reasonable volumes.  I have no idea whether CD-ROMs
> .... [excised]
>Hum...I remember reading something somewhere (yes, memory fails again. Guess
>I'll have to get an AI prompter like Henry has), whereby making a CD-ROM in
>small production was $5-10K. Again, I was wondering about the labor costs
>involved to put everything together...of course, it wouldn't surprise me if
>  .... [excised]
>I wonder if people will be giving up their stacks of National Geographic for a
>CD-ROM? Would kill a tradition. 

We are in the education and training business, and have video disks and CD's
mastered.  I was just at comdex las vegas and talked to sony, phillips and
3-M and all quoted about $1000 or less to master and _less than_ $2.00 per
copy after that, sony was I think something like $1.44 for quantities in only
the hundreds.  Interesting isn't it?  There are several things I would like
to see on CD-ROM as well.

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