meshes…
>That's how much advertising costs in the US magazine that has a circulation of
>60,000 – 100,000 copies (average price, black&white and half the size of a
>credit card, placed at the back of an issue).
The same is here in several magazines. These magazines have the problem that
nobody wants (and can) place ads in them.
>to pay for my food, clothes, rent, software and hardware. You can have my
>sympathy but I do not accept your arguments. Nobody here gives me a break just
>because I'm young and want to build a company.
You are right. But if you are selling IPAS in the US, why not to sell them in
the East Europe (with lower prices) if you can. Better to sell 100 copies per
$100 than to sell nothing. If I want to hit the market, I need to have
acceptable prices. We had the same problem with the export of our products. The
customer must be able to buy the product if I want to sell.
>Europe's computer fairs organized in schools (!), stadiums, etc. where
>literally thousands of illegal copies of software were sold with photocopied
The situation is much better now. It is possible to say that there is the
normal software market. And this market was built thanks to the policy of
special prices.
>environment? I get the feeling that you've never been to the West or you've
>never understood how the software industry works. Actually, I was for a long
time in Germany and Austria. And as a owner of computer company, I think that I
understand the problem a bit <BG>.
PavelK