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From: director@hisoft.com ()
Subject: CDROM's for $2.5 apiece!
Message-ID: <ggdasmk@highland.com>
Summary: Share setup costs to get CDROM's for $2.5 apiece.
Keywords: CDROM
Sender: news@highland.com
Organization: Highland Digital, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Date: 20 Apr 1994 17:38:26 UTC
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Hi,

We would like to distribute our product on CDROM, but the setup costs
make it uneconomic for a production run of a few hundred CD's.

However, if two or three companies were to share the set-up costs,
then it would be cleaner and less expensive than 1/4" tape. We need
less than 20M, so there should be plenty of room.

These figures are approximate, but for the sake of illustration:

Set-Up charges: $2000
Cost for 1000 CD's: $1500

So two companies could get 500 CD's apiece for $3.5 each.
or four companies could get 500 CD's apiece for $2.5 each.

Less than 1/4 inch and easier to snail-mail.

This seems like such a simple idea that there may already be such a
co-op or company offering such a service, do you know of one? and are
you interested in splitting the costs this way? (I know about CDWARE
from Sun, but want the product sent to a select customer list, rather
than 50,000 sysadmins).