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From: tp@ndm20
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Subject: Re: How many copies would YOU buy?
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 12:45:00 EDT
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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
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