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From: steve@morgoth.UUCP (Steve Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: No more Cinemaware stuff for Amiga !!!????
Summary: Cost of making a CD.
Message-ID: <514@morgoth.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 14:04:35 GMT
References: <346@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1523@ndmath.UUCP>
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In article <1523@ndmath.UUCP>, milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
> From article <346@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, by jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu:
> >> 
> > 
> > Vinyl records cost less to make than the packaging they come in. CD's cost
> > between $3 and $6 to make. The process of making a CD is infinitely more
                         [ stuff deleted ]
> Sorry...CD's DO NOT cost between $3-6 to make...this is something the record
                         [ stuff about cost of CD's deleted ]
> Anyone care to guess what a press run of 100,000 would cost per disk?  Less 
> than $1 I bet.

Yep, I remember reading in 'MIX MAGAZINE', a magazine about high-end audio
mix down equipment and techniques, that the average cost for making a CD was
about $1.27.  Now I'm sure that it would be more for a small record label that
only makes a few thousand or so, but yes, I can go out and have 1000 CDs made
for about $3 a piece (and I have!).  I would imagine that to put data on a CD
would cost about the same.

						-= Steve =-



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