Jonathan Miller wrote: > Well, yeah. And if we offered to give it away that would be even more > popular. (well maybe, not so many of you took us up on that offer, actually)
Susan says: I did! I took you up on the name-your-own-price deal! And I thank you. :) I do have a question, though. Maybe my brain is fried from orienting so many freshmen this week, but some of the statistics quoted are just not making sense to me. Can you help? You reported this: > We asked what percentage of your media usage and expenditure is for > online/streaming, vs. DVD purchases. > > Re usage: > > 85% of you said 20% or LESS > 74% said 90% or MORE (44% said 100%!) I don't quite get how the responses to this question can come to a total of >100%. If 85% of respondents said that media usage/expenditure for online/streaming is LESS than 20%, then those folks can't also choose another category, correct? And if that's correct, then how did an additional 74% of respondents say that they use/spend 90% or more on online/streaming? WHAT AM I MISSING HERE? And while I'm here, I may as well add, that I agree with Gary on this: > The real question to ask, I think, would be "how many of you would opt for > subscribing to remote (i.e. vendor-side) access if: 1) network delivery > were relatively stable for multiple concurrent users 2) image resolution were > sufficient for study-level access 3) continuing access to individual > titles were relatively stable (i.e. we could be sure that the carpet wouldn't > be whisked out from under us whenever distributor/filmmaker > contracts expired 4) pricing was flexible enough to allow both > single-semester and longer term-access > > And the real kicker: how many would get into this business more earnestly > (either for the short or long haul) if currently unrealistic pricing > structure for digital delivery (including the necessity of paying over and > over for access to the same title) didn't preclude it. Which is to day that I think you've jumped a little too quickly to this statement, Jonathan: > Which is (Drum roll): only 19% of you actually need us to make available this > sort of service? Some of us aren't there yet, either because our faculty demand isn't there yet or because our budgets aren't there yet or because we're not keen on the models/pricing currently offered... but that doesn't necessarily mean we don't want/need you to make the service available to us for consideration. Susan
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