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Mar. 24th, 2002 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strredwolfAt MSNBC's Silicon Summit 3, a crowd particpiant asked the heads of Amazon, AOL, Sony, and NBC a rather loaded question which I'll paraphraze:
When I go to a music store, I'm looking for specific songs. I'm ususally buying one CD to get three or four songs I like. Why can't we buy CD's that are all the ones we want?
Good question, I thought. I calculated a per-CD cost. I'll rework it here, rounding up:
$150 for a normal CD burner, which as time goes on, becomes neglible. So does the energy cost.
Through Diskmakers, I've found a few prices:
$.49 per CD-R in bulk of 100, up to $.29 in bulk of 3000 or more.
$.15 per jewel box (200-count box), up to $.12 in bulk of 5000 or more.
$.25 per padded mailer (100 count box).
That's $.90 to $.66 per CD now. If I go with CompUSA, $.75 minus the mailer.
USPS media mail is a lovely thing. 7 to 15 days, from East coast to west, if it's a pound max, $1.33. Insure it for $1.10.
$3.33 total, and that's not recouping cost of supplies. $5 should be able to do that.
When I go to a music store, I'm looking for specific songs. I'm ususally buying one CD to get three or four songs I like. Why can't we buy CD's that are all the ones we want?
Good question, I thought. I calculated a per-CD cost. I'll rework it here, rounding up:
$150 for a normal CD burner, which as time goes on, becomes neglible. So does the energy cost.
Through Diskmakers, I've found a few prices:
$.49 per CD-R in bulk of 100, up to $.29 in bulk of 3000 or more.
$.15 per jewel box (200-count box), up to $.12 in bulk of 5000 or more.
$.25 per padded mailer (100 count box).
That's $.90 to $.66 per CD now. If I go with CompUSA, $.75 minus the mailer.
USPS media mail is a lovely thing. 7 to 15 days, from East coast to west, if it's a pound max, $1.33. Insure it for $1.10.
$3.33 total, and that's not recouping cost of supplies. $5 should be able to do that.
