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Subject: Re: Custom DVD of egtb

Author: Yakov Konoval

Date: 21:28:06 02/01/06

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Hi, Joshua !

On February 01, 2006 at 23:49:16, Joshua Shriver wrote:

>I've seen online there a places that sell egtb DVD's (only 3-5piece that I've
>seen).
>
>What I was thinking about doing is having something similiar, but with 1 nice
>feature. The user can custom design their DVD on-demand.
>
>I dont want to make money off this, I just wanted to charge enough to cover the
>cost of the blank DVD, shipping, and maybe $1-2 for my time. That way a user
>could go to my website... select from which TB's they want 3-6. Then charge per
>DVD.

Are you going to charge a few cents for the author of EGTBs for his
programming, years of calculations, HD-space ... ?

>
>Again I don't want to come off as wanting to spin this into a business or expect
>to make any money off someone elses back.
>
>I'm willing to put the time, effort and storage into archiving a copy of all
>3-6+ egtb's. And more or less provide them to anyone who is willing to pay for
>the blank media. Because I personally would pay for such a service.
>
>It was just an idea, no harm in asking since technically it's possible since
>there are "commercial egtb media places"
>
>Providing them online for free would be best, but I can't afford to host 1.2TB
>and the bandwith. Though DVD shipping is within reason.
>
>Comments are appreciated.
>
>Josh

It's reasonable to get some money for hosting EGTBs, but please take in
account, that authors also host their EGTBs.

YK



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