OED
I feel the to OED has the potential to be as big a seller as Microsoft
Bookshelf. If you listed the disk at $80 I'm sure you could sell well over
100,000 copies, because even occasional dictionary users would buy it just
to have the ultimate in dictionaries. Yearly updates could be provided and
you could make more money on support software like on-line spelling
checkers. This lower price would allow a lot more people to benefit from
your research and I believe that your contributers want the maximum number
of people to benefit from their efforts. It is not even possible to
receive a decent discount on the current product. Please reconsider the
price of the new OED!
Thank you.
Sincerely
Bruce P. De Vries
Public libraries are being faced with ever decreasing budgets and many will
not be able to afford the OED CD-ROM, plus the drive and computer needed to
access it. I'm sure there are 5000 libriary that will order it though, but
you could be in a lot more places if the price was lower.