Re: [AGA-mcm] TAG archive CD/DVD

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, S. Hieber wrote:

> If this has to come up for a vote, let's not put a fixed
> price in the motion -- let's retain some flexibility
> without needing to revote.

That's cool.  Just wanted to give people an idea of how we'd price it, and 
see what folks thought.  I think in the original "fillibuster advisory 
committee of 1999-2000" era, there were a few schools of thought that 
effectively stalled the project (and also the videos):

  "We should charge $50-100 for this, because there's like 50-100 back 
issues people'd be getting."

  "We should make this copy-protected PDFs.  Maybe charge per-issue and 
supply out lock codes with each issue purchased."

  "We shouldn't do this at all because it's going to kill our back issue 
sales."

At any rate, I think we've done a lot of the proving of this with the DVDs 
(or even earlier than this, by observing how PAM self-destructed partly to 
its ever-increasing subscription cost), and I think it's pretty clear that 
more people will buy our stuff at a reasonable price.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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