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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Pricey disk magazines (was Re: Amiga World / Amaz
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Date: 12 Apr 91 02:46:12 GMT
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From article <1366@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, by dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann):
> So what you've got is a $2 additional expense to producing and delivering
> the magazine, but a $5 to $6 hike in the cover price.  Now, I suppose if
> I didn't have a modem and access to lots of nice BBS's locally and around
> the country, this might not seem like a rip-off.

Unfortunately, this doesn't take into account the Neanderthalic state of
the publishing industry in the United States. "Computer? What's that?" They
don't know how many they've sold until months after they're out the door,
they don't know how much money they have in the bank for months because
returns start dribbling in from retailers for quite some time, only 40% of
the magazines sent to retailers are ever sold (i.e., $4 more in the cover
price for a $2 disk) and then retailers want a percent of the profit too.
$5 or $6 hike in cover price is pretty decent for a $2 disk, if the
magazine is sold retail, considering that if they printed up 40,000 of
these things they just sunk $80,000 into the venture that will have to be
financed at 10-15% interest for the next four months.

Now, for subscribers, I agree. $5 or $6 is outrageous.

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