Re: 3D CD

[P3D Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Larry Berlin wrote:
> 
> >Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997
> >From: P3D Dan Shelley writes:
> >
> >P3D Adam L. Beckerman wrote:
> >....................
> >> but I have a few comments:  Your
> >> priority should be to see how many would buy it
> >> since the costs associated with producing it must
> >> be at least accounted for in order for it to be viable
> >> (this is pretty obvious though).
> >
> >Actually, I have no desire to make this a for profit venture. I hope
> >that 25 or so people would be able to spend and average of $25 each
> >($625) for the CD. That would allow me to break out at about even for
> >what I expect the time and hardware investment to be. If it goes beyond
> >that, GREAT!, but that is not my goal, and so far, only about 8 people
> >(including me) are interested...
> 
> *****  I've been behind in reading the digests just found this thread. I
> have reservations about the project in that some material on my site I may
> wish to publish on my own at some point. Others may have similar thoughts or
> plans for their web content. It certainly would have to be done with
> permission...
> 
> However, as to costs, if I were to collect all the images and websites on my
> own and take it to the local computer store, it would cost me $25 to have a
> CD burned with the info. I assume that I might get a slightly better deal if
> I had multiple copies burned at the same time. The biggest cost is
> organizing the whole thing and making sure it all worked before putting it
> on the CD to begin with. That would be quite a bit of work.
> 
> >.....................
> >I hope that people would be willing to have their entire site
> >represented on the CD... Let's see! =)
> >.........................
> >As I said, I am not interested in profit with this idea, just
> >preservation of Web 3D information and speed of access to it without the
> >need for actually being connected to the web. I think we can do this,
> >but I do need to hear more from you all before I start actively working
> >on this thing...
> >
> 
> *****  For the amount of work, and considering how useful the results might
> be, this sounds more like it should be a *for profit* venture. Once the
> master copy is made and checked out, multiple copies can be duplicated at
> lower costs when done in volume. I haven't checked those costs, but it would
> make a low level circulation project seem viable. I wouldn't expect to make
> a lot of money from this, but contibutors should be able to share in
> whatever returns might happen.
> 
> Larry Berlin
> 
> Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
> http://3dzine.simplenet.com/

Larry, at this point there are jsut over 30 people interested... That is
not a profit making number. I think Bob is go for letting me have access
to the 125 MB of Photo-3D stuff, and several companies have offered
images and software to distribute. I wish you would be a part if it
happens, but if you choose to not be a part of it, that's OK too. I
would probably still include a link to your page. 

As to shares of possible return for thos who submit something, I don't
see how this can adeqately be measured. Say you add 5MB of data, do I
give you $.10 (or something) per MB that you include per CD that sells?
If I need to do that kind of micro management of costs for all 350 or so
places that might submit data, I just won't do the project. It's already
a big enough monster as is. If you want profit from a CD, then maybe you
should just make your own. This CD is a snapshop of the current 3D web,
and nothing more. As Sam said, a "vanity" CD.

Let me know what you decide.

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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