#Magazines on CD-ROM?
27-Jan-93 20:14:13
Sb: #38118-#Magazines on CD-ROM?
Fm: Bill Simonsen 70007,6172
To: Paul Zane Pilzer 70363,2003
Wow, that sounds great Paul Whatever you do, people are hungry to take
advantage of the new technology they own. The JFK disc sounds like a real
winner between multimedia and the marketing savvy to go to a hot topic,
(thanks to Ollie Stone).
I don't envy your task, though- CD prices are dropping rapidly as more and
more producers enter the market. I remember speaking to Dave DeLorme when
his company's Street Atlas was still in aeta, and he was being advised to
sell the disc for around 2,000 dollars as a commercial app. He wanted to
sell it for a hundred bucks as a personal product. I'm not privy to
DeLorme's financial stats, but it sure looks like a growing healthy company
to me, seems like Dave chose right.
Guess what I'm trying to say is, try for a thin margin and a lot of
volume, it seems to be the only way to make money in any field these days.
I'm kind of in the business, (computers, not CD's), deal with quite a few
consumers and public agencies, and if my experience can be of any small
help to you, I'd be glad to give you plenty of free advice, probably worth
what you pay for it. <g>
-Bill