Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site ndm20 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!ndm20!tp From: tp@ndm20 Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: How many copies would YOU buy? Message-ID: <2600002@ndm20> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 12:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ndm20.2600002 Posted: Mon Jul 15 12:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:21:33 EDT References: <4671@mit-eddie.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:mit-eddie.UUCP:-467100:ndm20:2600002:000:1033 Nf-From: ndm20!tp Jul 15 11:45:00 1985 On the case of students, how about a student discount? I work for a company and can easily pay $50, maybe $75 for manuals (probably want about 5). For students, $5 would be good. I think that many (most?) would pay the higher price to help support Gnu. How about this: sell the manuals for $5, $10, $20, and $40. All the same manual, but let people pay as much as they want ($5 version only for students though). Then you can show the appropriate price list to your boss to justify the cost of the manual. Another idea is quanitity breaks, $40 for 1 copy, $20 each for 2-4, $10 for 5-15, $5 for 16 or more. Then the students will just place a group order to get the high quanitity discount. (Of course, my buying 5 manuals is dependent on whether I can ever get my hands on the program in the first place, and whether or not it runs on an HS-20 (Masscomp) :-) Terry Poot Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers (214)739-4741 Usenet: ...!{allegra|ihnp4}!convex!smu!ndm20!tp CSNET: ndm20!tp@smu ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPA