Re: [Killietalk] CD project-fair price

["Bill Shenefelt" <william_shenefelt at verizon.net>]

To me a fair price would be somewhere between $20 and $30 a CD tops.  This 
is not going to be a money making proposition.  Charge more and no one would 
buy them.  Anyone who can get a complete encyclopedia for about $40 on DVD 
versus $3 or $4 hundred via book.  Yes, we all paid for the membership which 
does INCLUDE a JAKA subscription, but the dues really pay for the mailing 
and that's about it!!  The initial cost of the conversion is the majority of 
the cost.  Runoff copies are not al that expensive. As for piracy, it exists 
everywhere but what is the audience?  Killie people who are mostly pretty 
honest.  No one else would want it, and if they did, so what, we stir 
interest in killies and is that not what we are supposed to be doing???   I 
doubt anyone out there would pirate it to try to reatil copies.  At $25, we 
might actually have a pet shop market?
Our hobby has never been one for making a profit.  Most of us who actually 
sell their fish place an inherent value resulting in better care for a fish 
that took the breeder some real time, cost and effort to raise, not a money 
making venture.  What is the AKA for?  To me it exists to promote the hobby. 
Seems not want to sponsor collecting or issue material that is not 
profitable is a current philosphy with which I totally disagree..  If I can 
spend time, electric, food, webcosts, water costs to raise fish to sell at a 
loss as an individual to promote the hobby, the AKA can do sometthing at a 
loss too!

Bill Shenefelt
http://sheneskillies.com/ 


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