#reply and queries
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Kathy: Many thanks, many thanks. Due to memory overflow on my end, I received
o only six of your ten total pages; when you have the time and it isn't
trouble, i'd be grateful for the last four. The last page I rec'd was "Books
About…" Any chance I could pick your brain, politely, sometime in the near
future about retrieval software and interfaces? I understand your part of the
business pretty well, but the front end is baffling to me, despite three weeks
of hard research: most of the companies in the market seem to me greedy beyond
all reasonable bounds. My company does electronic prepress and data conversion
work, and we just did a large encyclopedia for a client back East who wants to
port the thing to cd. Dot dot dot. . . If yes, neame preferred nonbusy time,
and I'll call. Again, thanks.
Terry,
I was aware of the fax problem — tried to send the remainder this morning, but
line was busy. Stewart will get the rest of it out to you this afternoon, I
hope.
<<but the front end is baffling to me, despite three weeks of hard research>>
After 9 months, I'm still baffled <BG>. This is an enormous information space
to try to cover. I think I've seen someone say there are 200-300 s&r programs
out there now, and more popping up all the time. I'll be happy to discuss what
I have gleaned with you. Any time this week would be fine, except for this
afternoon between 3:00 and 6:00. I'll be back at the office after 6pm (central
time), probably till 8:00 or 9:00pm.
Kathy
Katherine: All pages received, fine. FWIW, your production and replication
prices strike me as very reasonable–lower than most, even, perhaps, though
Sony is presently offering a one-time deal that's prob a loss leader. It's the
search and retrieval software that's the problem. I just got the whole inf.
kit from Nimbus–they don't charge royalties, which is sensible, but they do
charge a whopping $10 K PER APP, meaning that if I want to do five books, I'm
looking at $50K. No way. Their market is clearly internal major-corp use, and
primarily database over text. They need to figure out there are other markets
out there, and money to be made in them by all of us together if we work
together. End of speech. I'll call, perhaps Friday, my one day off this week.
Terry,
There are a whole range of royalty/package deals out there. I'm learning about
at least some of them. Be happy to talk to you Friday.
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.