Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!news.ossi.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!news.bu.edu!gw1!nntpa!babel.ho.att.com!dave From: dave@edo.ho.att.com (Dave Hayden) Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Britannica NOW on CD-ROM!!! Message-ID: Sender: news@nntpa.cb.att.com (Netnews Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: edo.ho.att.com Organization: AT&T References: <2ta4q0$ljk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 17:18:02 GMT Lines: 42 wperko@netcom.com (Walt Perko) writes: >I'd love to have this CD-ROM but: PRICE: $1599.00 >it is totally out of line! >I'd rather just continue to look-up stuff via the Internet! >When you can bring the price down under $100, then I think you >can sell an issue to everybody in the world, perhaps even >generate more CD-ROM drives sales to get the CD-ROM, but >I'm never going to pay that much for a single CD-ROM. >I wouldn't doubt that boot-leg versions pop up all over the >place very soon. ridicules pricing is not going to do your >reputation very much. > CUL8r, Walt Perko = wperko@netcom.com >David Talan (aa257@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote: >: ******************************************************************* >: ******************************************************************* >: ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ON CD-ROM >: ******************************************************************* >: ******************************************************************* >: o Now there's a single CD-ROM with all 44,000,000 words of Britannica! >: And it's easy to install--you can begin using it in minutes. Gee, is this the same 44,000,000 words that EB has been telling us they COULDN'T get on a single CDROM because it was too big? Seems fully how suddenly it fits. Dave