On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:29, Austin wrote: > On 09/24/2003 09:32:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > One, Mandrake don't make much money on boxes. They pay people to make the > > boxes, they pay to duplicate the CDs, they pay to print the manuals, > > they pay for distribution, and they have to sell wholesale to the > > retailers. > > So why bother at all then? Where are they selling the boxed sets now? Online > only?
Why sell them at all? Corporate inertia. I expect they won't be within two years. There's some at MDKsoft who already think dumping boxes is the way to go. Where are they selling them? Online, and I think in some European stores. > > I expect the > > money they saved by stopping bothering with the US office, the workers, > > the distribution and so on is probably more than they made from selling > > boxes in the US in the FIRST place. > > Well, until middle-class America and their non-credit-card-holding but free- > living-at-home and part-time-job-holding kids start doing all their shopping > online, probably the largest market of disposable income in the world is being > left untapped. > There has to be a way to sell such a cool product to presently-unaware- > America, hasn't there? Presently unaware? I think that's a little exaggerated. -- adamw
