In terms of making it happen technically, even if you charged $2.00 extra per module for overheads, you may have enough to hire someone to maintain things. The real problem I think is chasing and pinning down the publishing houses. Or maybe that isn't even hard, I have no idea.
David Burry wrote: > Great idea, if enough people donate to maintain the service then all > those locked modules could be sold at the royalty cost, essentially as > free as it gets. This can only happen if some knowledgeable people > are willing to actually make it happen and maintain it though. > > Dave > > > At 01:54 PM 12/2/2001 -0600, David Overcash wrote: > >> 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 >> > > >
