Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!brentw From: brentw@netcom.com (Brent C. Williams) Subject: Re: Oxford ED prices was Re: Another reason Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <2f0eb4$q2e@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU> <2f0n2n$rsl@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU> <931231.84022.FEIRG@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 22:42:44 GMT Lines: 31 FEIRG@delphi.com writes: > >I hope you're right....that they'll drop the price after the libraries buy it. > >$800+ is just too much! > >Glenna, NY I probably wouldn't expect them to drop the price any. Why? Well, there's a limited appeal for the product. So they won't be able to make back all the $$ that it cost them to develop it if they sell it for $50. I think $995 is eminently fair given that the hardcopy is $3,000. OED on CD-ROM is the first CD-ROM product that I haven't been able to get an evaluation copy of -- I am in the computer industry press and usually have no problem getting anything I want. But the deal they will give is 30 day loan, but you have to return it. That's because there are probably 10,000 press types (many of whom are retread English majors like myself) who wouldn't mind having a copy of the OED around, "just in case." If only a few of them gave the disc to friends it would seriously cripple revenue for OED. On the other hand, so what if Compton's gives away 250 copies of its encyclopedia to press types against sales of 250K+ units? -brent -- -brent williams (brentw@netcom.com) san jose, california "There's a special place for lovers, one we understand, there where neon bends the daylight sky. In that sunny room, she soothes me, cools me with her fan. We're drifting, a thousand years roll by."