[sword-devel] Creating sword modules

[David Overcash]

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: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
[mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:04 AM
To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
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
>