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From: Paul Croome <pc@SOFTWARE-AG.DE>
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Subject: CD Manufacturing costs
Date: 28 Feb 1994 18:41:36 +0200
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Ronald Gast <unido!MKSOL.DSEG.TI.COM!rgast>
writes:

...produced cost less than $1.00 per copy, I don't expect a BLANK CD costs
less than that, let alone one that has been mastered, silk screened, and
packaged for shipment.
>>>

There's no such thing as a "blank CD". Before a CD is pressed, it's
just a handful of polycarbonate granules lying in a barrel.
Now, with CD-WORMs it's different...

Paul Croome
pc@software-ag.de