I agree. Should we (or is there already) open an area on the sword/crosswire site to accept donations? I am sure many people would donate money and it could be put to lots of uses
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Creating sword modules If you are getting a half million downloads, I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could do a lot better than 10,000 x $10. After all there's probably a bunch of these same people paying multi-times that amount for commercial products as well. If crosswire's goal is to give stuff away, I would think you need to get a licencing deal done just so you can play in the same league. As an example, I know a retired lady, who can ill-afford to be buying software, recently spent about $60 I think for some bible program. While you and I would like to be able to give her say NIV free, we'd still be doing the world a service if we could give it to her for $10 and save her $50. Chris Little wrote: >>Well this text came from an old BibleSource program, published by >>Zondervan, so I guess that's good news. >> >>Has there been direct contact with any of the publishers? I >>would have >>thought that a lot of them would be happy to have people >>selling their >>product. There seem to be a lot of bible programs on the market that >>must have done a deal with them. >> > >Zondervan is only interested in sources of reliable, large profits. >>From our statistics, which show us serving about half a million books >per year, I would assume 10,000 people would probably be willing to pay >$10 for an NIV license to meet Zondervan's quota for that. I'm not sure >about licensing on their other property. > >But no one has worked with any publishers for the purpose of selling >content. CrossWire's purposes are to create software and distribute >scripture for free, so it would be a group other than CrossWire itself >that dealt with these matters. > >--Chris >
