Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hou2h!mr From: mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.micro Subject: Re: CD-ROMs Message-ID: <1067@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 08:47:31 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.1067 Posted: Fri Oct 4 08:47:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 06:40:17 EDT References: <512@moncol.UUCP>, <997@druxo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.audio:6025 net.micro:12217 > This isn't really comparable. What we're talking about here is a difference > in media, not program content. For Lotus, you're paying for the program, not > > I would expect the price to remain the same. However, a record that lists for > $7.98 may have a CD price tag of $15.98 or even $17.98, although you're getting > the exact same program content, and the record company is paying the exact same > royalties! Since the disk might cost a dollar to produce, and the record only > a few cents, they pass this difference on to the consumer. Where this is > strange, of course, is that since a record costs, say, 35 cents to produce > while the CD costs $1.00, why does this 65 cent difference turn into $8-10 > at the record store. The reason for the difference is that the manufactures are trying to recoup their initial R&D investment at this point in time. When the market for CD's grows to the proportions of other media then the price will decrease correspondingly. Mark