Craig,
There is one other facet that you are overlooking here. The SCAC
listings can also be purchased in electronic format on CD for the paltry
price of... are you ready for this?... $820!! Of course that does
include quarterly updates. That is nearly 5 times that cost of the print
version. I think that if these organizations that publish these
standards really wanted to ensure that people would actually use them,
they would consider reasonable pricing for copies of the relevant
standards.
I would hope that someone from NMFTA (and DISA for that matter), is
seeing this and would take a moment to think over their policies of
charging unreasonable rates.
As the old saying goes, "You catch more flies with honey than
vinegar...".
Patrick F. Sczypiorski
Manager of Application Systems
Velvac, Inc.
(262) 786-0700 Ext. 371
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Dunham Craig E.
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:33 PM
To: Orin Rehorst; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [EDI-L] SCAC CODE LIST
Ah, but Orin - here's something to consider.... That book that Mystery
Man is getting 3 million for (as an advance) is going to be printed in
hard-bound and paperback versions... there will be multiple
printings... and it will probably sell at your local Barnes & Noble
(fill in bookstore of choice) for - more-than-likely - 20 bucks or
less.... when it hits paperback - it will go for less than 10 bucks a
copy.....
I'm quite sure that Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, J.K. Rowling
and scores of other fiction (and non-fiction) books see hundreds of
thousands and millions of dollars for the advance for writing a book.
But those are against future royalties for the sale of said book....
it's not Bantam Books or Knopf or _______ (publisher of choice) selling
the book to the market place it was intended for at a cost of thousands
or millions of dollars....
You're skirting the issue and dodging the point - NMFTA charges far too
much for this simple repository of information... and yes, I realize
that we're dealing with multiple editions from year to year - with
updates and changes included - but look at nearly ANY reference book you
can buy - and you'll find that 150 bucks PLUS for the hard-copy is
high.... I've purchased many other research and reference books that,
too, get updated yearly or some other fixed period, and still many of
them are usually available for less than 1/5th of the current price of
the SCAC list from NMFTA.
But, also, NMFTA is not the only organization/association that is guilty
of these egregious charges - even just the X12 standards books are
highly priced - but they don't change from year to year - but more from
"release version" to "version"....
Craig E. Dunham
EDI Coordinator
EYE Analyst
Big 5 Sporting Goods
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From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:rehorst%40poha.com>
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Subject: RE: [EDI-L] Re: SCAC CODE LIST
I don't know if the $155 for the SCAC book is high or not. I haven't
seen the NMFTA's financials. However, consider this. A man in my city
just got paid $3,000,000 in advance for writing a book.
Regards,
Orin
Orin Rehorst
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