I don't think it's that crazy to print books in low volume for a 3000$ product today, but iI recall it was quite a burden to have to finish the doc and the screenshots long in advance of shipping. i'm pretty sure those books quickly became stale and didn't include the new features but just the generalities that didn't change. you didn't get all the books for an upgrade. I think everyone dropped books firstly to shorten that release window and then to cut any extra expense. I recall there was an app that you could pay something like 200$ extra for printed manual, can't recall if that was us.
On Saturday, April 13, 2013, Chris Chia wrote: > Yes Matt. That was what I meant as I didn't know the price of XSI 1.0. > Assuming if it was the price of the current Softimage, then those packaging > and thick copies of printed docs would have constitute to a big portion of > the cost price. > > > On 13 Apr, 2013, at 11:32 AM, "Matt Lind" > <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > printing wasn't a huge concern in those days as the software sold for > nearly $13,000 USD with about $200 going towards printing and manufacturing > materials. The extra materials acted as a way to help justify the high > cost of the software in the eyes of a pre-internet sales business climate. > When people spend more, they expect more in the box. > > > > >
