Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.publish.cdrom.software,comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!sphinx!jamantle From: jamantle@maplesoft.on.ca (Jim Mantle) Subject: Re: HELP: any stats on CD-ROM proliferation? Message-ID: Sender: news@maplesoft.on.ca (News File Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: wildecho Organization: Waterloo Maple Software Inc. References: <2gc6j1$qha@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 18:18:08 GMT Lines: 42 Xref: cdrom.com comp.publish.cdrom.software:130 comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia:135 In article <2gc6j1$qha@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca>, Steve L Portigal wrote: >In my Masters thesis (currently almost finished) I'd like to say somethign about >the huge amount of online information available to personal computer owners. >If anyone can point or preferably just report some kind of info indicating >how big this, I'd appreciate it. Useful stats would be something like: > >n% of all personal computers now are equipped with CD-ROM drives > " " " " " >X titles are currently available >X CD-ROMS were sold last year and the number is increasing > >I'm more interested in information CD-ROMS (databases, documents) than >multimedia, but I'm not expecting a separate number to be availalbe based on >that kind of differentiation. > >anything which will let me communicate how much info is availalb eto how >many people would be really useful. > >I'd prefer email. > >thanks very much! > From Apple Computer (last September): Annual sales (4 years ago): 7,000 units 2 years ago): 50,000 units 1993: 1,300,000 units projected (and exceeded) 45% of machines which are CD-ready (space for an internal CD drive) are shipped with such a drive installed. Estimate of CD-ROM media-rich titles (not just data dumps or software distribution): 1992: 600 DOS, 800 Mac 1993: 1500 Mac, 1500 DOS, 2000 Windows Also, at Microsoft, send an eMail to mmdinfo@microsoft.com - they may have some answers to your questions. Finally - contact some of the CD-ROM catalogs to get an estimate of the total numbers of titles available. Jim