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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Hey, Commodore has a brain everybody! (Marketing)
Message-ID: <1380@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 08:29:15 GMT
References: <29305@know.pws.bull.com> <1991Jun12.023209.19315@cs.wayne.edu> <1991Jun13.092203.23979@cs.ruu.nl> <1360@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Jun17.162549.18165@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991Jun17.162549.18165@cs.ruu.nl> ptavoly@cs.ruu.nl (Peter Tavoly) writes:
>In <1360@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>
>>>It has: it's called First Steps or something (I've got the German version:
>>>Erste Schritte), it includes graphics, all mouse-driven (until you get
>>>to the shell stuff, but mouse is still supported)
>>
>>It's past. It was dropped for cost reasons. 
>
>Cost reasons? One disk (~25 cents) + duplication costs (nearly nihil, since
>duplication companies frequently give discounts on disks themselves if
>you use their services). All in all, I would exaggerate if the whole package
>would be more than 5 bucks (including author's royalties!).

Well, plus handling (put it into the box), packaging, author's royalties,...
You have to roughly estimate that every dollar pure costs mean 3 dollars
added to retail price (very rough estimate though). And then ca.
10 $ are already some price argument.

>Seems to me this is not much on ~$400 (for the cheapest models).

Sorry, it is.

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