On the Cost of "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought"

[Dan Shafer]

Greg....

You are not correct but it is not necessarily surprising that you 
aren't! We offer so many options.

Here's the real scoop.

The *printed* books used to be $47 but Kevin and I recently announced a 
price reduction to $37.

The *eBooks* are only available in a bundle that includes all three of 
the eBooks and one of three levels of an annual membership in my online 
community called RevolutionPros, where there is a discussion board, 
access to me for questions and help, and other goodies. The three 
levels of membership are $97, $147 and $197. Those who pay the highest 
fee get a bunch of goodies the others don't get.

Frankly, at $47 I thought the printed book was a good value and a lot 
of folks agreed.  But when we decided mutually to slow down progress on 
the book project to allow RunRev to focus its resources on product 
development while we look for a third-party publisher to pick up the 
printing and distribution and order fulfillment stuff, we thought it 
would be a nice gesture to lower the price of Volume 1 in the process.

HTH

Dan

On May 19, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Just wanted to confirm that the cost of Mr. Shafer's book, 
> "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought", offered through 
> Runtime's web site, is in fact US $97.  If this is correct, it seems 
> exorbitant considering that most computer self-help books in hard copy 
> typically sell for not more than $25 here in the land of maple syrup, 
> hockey and Blue Rodeo.  Not to denigrate Mr. Shafer's good work, as I 
> owned his older books on HyperCard and AppleScript, but it seems that 
> a six-fold increase in price for something that is available only in 
> an electronic version is pushing it.
>
> Greg
>
> Associate Professor of Finance
> John Molson School of Business
> Concordia University
> Montreal, Quebec
> Canada
>
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