From: Kevin Rose (vladt@interaccess.com)
Date: Sat 01 Aug 1998 - 22:55:10 EEST
Luc Lavergne <arkat@rocketmail.com>
>Maybe you don't know but AD&D has recently been published on CD-ROM.
>It has all the rules, character generation system, but I have yet to
>see it on my computer screen.
It was actually a few years ago. I know someone who works for a company
that published a set of rules on a CD and found that it was much more
expensive than you might expect. His estimate was that it cost about
$50,000 to set up the master. Mostly this is because the search engines
you need for the product to be useful are not free and the you need
someone who has a very good idea what they are doing to run the project.
You have to convert a lot of data that is in text to HTML and convert the
graphics also. It takes time.
The cost per disk is much lower than it is with paper, but it is not a few
cents. A gold blank is going to cost you a dollar, even in quantity. And
a gold blank requires burning the image by hand. If you stamp them out
they are cheaper per CD, but the setup cost is very steep. If you stamp
20,000 it gets fairly cheap, but not if you do 500.
I would be a really cool idea to build a CD that is a Gloranthan
sourcebook, but I don't think it would be a comercially viable idea. But
is someone gets enough info put into HTML you can burn a web site onto a
CD. But you are never going to make any money doing it. But then again,
not many people are Glorantha to make money.
Kevin
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