#Mac CD-ROM newsletter!
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Philip:
Your idea sounds like a good one.
Please add me to your sample issue list:
Howard Dinin
Howard Dinin Creative Services
353 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
My business is strategic marketing and communications services for
businesses.
I just bought my first CD-ROM drive, a NEC CDR-74, which one of the gurus
on this forum seems to expect will be lowered in price after the Winter
Comdex. Doesn't it gall you? It does me. I know enough about the
technology to know there's little, if anything that anyone is liable to
introduce, besides compatibility with the new Kodak photo conversion to
disk process that is capable of being a competitive advantage. I'd like to
believe that current high end drives will be upgradeable through ROM
replacement, but who knows (perhaps the guru, who answered the question
elsewhere)?
I feel I have already discovered a paucity of access to whatever titles may
be out there. In fact, I haven't yet discovered a source of titles, never
mind access. Mac-compatible disks are presumably scarce, given the
disparity of market share of platforms, and, as someone else on this forum
observed, there are apparently only 4% of the installed Mac base with
CD-ROM drives.
My uses will be mainly DTP oriented. For example, I ordered Adobe
Type-On-Call with the drive and I do know there are a number of CD-ROM
"clip-art" services out there. Some of the Stock Photo libraries I use
from time to time have parts of their catalogs available on CD-ROM (I
believe even NEC offered a photo gallery at one time–I don't know yet if
they still do.
Sorry for running on. Good Luck with your venture.
I don't mean to butt in, but…
The penetration of CDROM drives in the Mac market is higher (as much as
twice as high) as the Dos-based market. One of the main reasons is
businesses like yours that use Macs in graphics and publishing
applications. As for titles, you might want to take a look at the
"vndrs.txt" file in Library #14, expecially Educorp which specializes in
Mac titles. If you would like to become an activist, I'd suggest you let
the publishers of your favorite titles know where you shop, and where you
expect their titles to be available.
Your comments are valid, and I hope you find more of what you are looking
for through the Forum, through pubs like Philip's and through the pubs that
serve your specific business interests.
Rich Bowers
OPA