On Tuesday 13 June 2006 18:07, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote: > Speaking as an accountant and a costing / pricing advisor, I agree > with what was said earlier. You need to cut down the price. Even > though I can afford it, I think twice before buying a magazine at Rs. > 150 (or even Rs. 100) a pop. Few people will want to buy a magazine > on sharing basis. It does not work.
I agree. Rs.100-150 is for a magazine which provides 2 DVDs and ~130 pages of content + ads on glossy paper. I wouldn't mind a magazine which uses low quality paper. But dont you think that it would be very cheap for them to just make an online magazine? I think with cost of internet access ( ~200INR a month ) anybody can afford to read it online if its priced at Rs.300-400 a year. The magazine cuts down on the cost of printing and DVDs. Its purely the cost of hosting and bandwidth. > In today's work environment, how many people can afford to go to > British Council Library (or any library) to read magazines ? Many of > us still read in transit or in the few leisure hours of morning or > after dinner. I wish I had time available like you to go to the > library. Agreed. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
