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#Magazines on CD-ROM?

    27-Jan-93 20:14:13
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