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From: dcw@lcs.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: develop, Dynamo, and life in general
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Date: 10 Feb 90 20:44:23 GMT
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In article <1629@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes:
>In article <-533196065@cpl-mfh.UUCP> martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman) writes:
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>While I am not an Apple Employee, and thus have nothing to defend, let me
>ask how you can equate Nibble, Dr. Dobbs and others to the costs involved
>with develop?? Do the other publications come with a CD-ROM included
>in the price of each issue?? Heck, $30 is a fair price for 4 CD-ROM's
>without a printed magazine, don't you think?? Have you mastered or pressed
>a CD-ROM lately? Do you have any idea of the costs involved in that??

Yes. Actually, the group where I work at here at mit has. It costs
roughly $3 or $4 per disk, depending on how many you press. This is an
Apple-sponsored deal, so I figure that Apple can charge itself even
less. CD's are cheap. (Music CDs just shouldn't sell for $12-$16. Rip
off city.)

The real cost is in volume. Apple just doesn't sell or expect to sell
a whole lot of copies. Take a look at other magazines which are
high-quality, yet don't sell a whole lot. For example, Cinefex
magazine is a quarterly and it costs roughly $30/year. No CD, either.

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