Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 14:06:32 10/16/97
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>I don't follow your math. I can't imagine a circumstance where a >program >sells for $100 us, and the author only makes 10 bucks on the deal. >Chris >could answer what the CD costs per unit, and also packaging. But this >10% >seems horribly low to me... I don't know who mentioned 10 % . But I know that the amount of money for each sold Hiarcs chess engine is not very high. Consider: If ONE hiarcs-engine for chessbase costs 100 DM, the big-distributor gets them for 50 DM, or ? So CB gets 50 DM ?! Ok. Than 10 % of 50 DM is not much ! And each hiarcs engine is a lost HIARCS-DOS-UNIT sold. I know that the programmers don't get much. Only Lang and Morsch and Ed can live good from it. I don't think that Mark gets his costs back he has to pay for travel-costs and energy-supply and machine-costs (buying a pc or 2 for autoplaying...). Chris has totally different costs because he sells to the mass market. He has different costs and different payments. The strong programs do not sell those many copies like the mass market sells. Normally. Genius and Fritz are exceptions.
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