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- WHAT IS SHAREWARE?
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- Shareware is a unique marketing tool. With it prospective software buyers
- can test and evaluate quality software. With it you purchase only the software
- that you intend to continue using.
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- Commercial software marketed through traditional distribution channels can
- cost anywhere between $30 and $500.00 retail. This price covers the high costs
- of advertising, fancy packaging, printed manuals, binders, diskette duplic-
- ation, user support, royalties, inventory maintenance, and retailer markup.
- Royalties, or what the author receives, amounts to only a very small percentage
- of the total cost to you.
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- As a shareware author, I have cut out most of the hidden costs of quality
- software. You pay for printing the manual on your printer and for downloading
- or other distribution costs, and I pass the savings onto you, the user.
-
- You might have purchased a copy of my shareware product on a disk from a copy
- and distribution service company for a disk fee. If that is true, then you
- have chosen to do so instead of downloading this product from a Bulletin Board
- System for free (not counting cost of the phone utilization). This is entirely
- your own cost or consideration for the opportunity to evaluate my product be-
- fore purchasing a license to use it. This cost is in addition to, and may not
- be deducted from, the registration fee.
-
- In other words, I am allowing you to use/test my product for a reasonable trial
- period. If during that period you decide you don't want to run this program on
- a continuous basis, then:
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- (1) Do not register it; and
- (2) Delete the version you are running.
-
- You do not have to be registered to place the file in your bulletin board's
- files area. Indeed, I encourage that, and thank you for helping to distribute
- this door if you do.
-
- For continued use of my product, evaluators must register! That's how share-
- ware works. If you aren't helping promote the concept, you're helping to kill
- it.
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- WHAT IS REGISTRATION AND HOW IS IT ACCOMPLISHED?
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- Registration is how evaluators purchase a license to use my product on one
- computer for an unlimited period of time.
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- With commercial software, you first purchase one copy. Afterwards, you mail in
- a registration postcard to register your copy in order to obtain certain
- additional services, such as product support. With Shareware the process is
- simpler. You buy the license to use it at the same time that you register.
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- To register simply fill out the attached registration form (ORDER.FRM) and send
- it with payment to:
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- Kevin L. Higgins
- Qtrs 7238B
- Fort Carson, CO 80913
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- In the immortal words of Mssrs. Bartles and James: "Thanks for your support."
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