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From: lrccon@ux.acs.umn.edu (Philip Arny)
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Subject: Re: Why are CD-ROMs so expensive?
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Date: 3 Jan 90 14:59:15 GMT
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Remember -- what you're paying for is not the CD-ROM disk, but 
the information and indexing on the disk.  That is what costs so
much, because MOST of that is done by humans, still.  

Philip Arny
Bio-Medical Library
University of Minnesota