On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Marsden<jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Jonathan Morgan wrote: > >>> On May 10th, 2007, he reported having got a reply to the effect that >>> "the NIV costs US$10,000 to license and then US$10 per copy. There is also a >>> rather detailed approval process." > ... >> I remember the discussion, and I believe the terms were exactly the >> same. Now they sell NIV, TNIV and NIrV together for "one low price" >> of $29.99. > >>> Being a non-income "organization", CrossWire is just not in this league. > >> I agree. I don't think the amount reasonable, either, but that is >> another story. > > It doesn't seem all that impossible. At those prices, mental math says > the breakeven is 500 copies. You just need the $10000 up front. > > If ten CrossWire people kicked in $1000 each (or twenty people @ $500 > each), and if (a big if?) there was a reasonable expectation of selling > 500 NIV modules within a year or two, it would be doable. Are there 500 > CrossWire users interested in the NIV at this price? Doing something > like that would change the "feel" of what CrossWire is, somewhat, so the > group would have to decide if this sort of venture is something it > *wants* to do. But to me, it sounds fairly feasible, *if* the group > chooses to make it a serious goal.
Those numbers aren't quite right. The $30 is for the NIV, TNIV and NIrV bundle. Licensing costs for these are unknown, but I'm guessing it's more than $10. I personally would not in any way support selling the NIV by itself for $30 (or just about any other version, for that matter). Even the $10 is unreasonable, IMHO (compare it to the price of paper Bibles and conjecture at the production and replication costs of the two media and you will see what I mean). Even if we agreed on that, you would still need to overcome the statement: "Our policy at this time does not allow us to release the NIV database to individuals or for use in Linux based, open source or shareware software products; therefore IBS-STL will not be granting your request for use of the NIV." Jon _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
