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In article <32bu3i$h9n@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, Danny Thomas
<D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au> wrote:

> well I hope someone from Niles is still listening becuase they'll price
> themselves out of the market. To put it in perspective:
> 
> In Australia, I can
>    buy a full copy of Word 5.1 at the academic price of A$140
>    buy an academic licence for running another copy of Word for A$60
>    buy a copy of EndNote for $460.
> If we could licence EndNote at a comparable rate, then we'd have more
> people running it. Postgrads can't afford that themselves, nor justify it
> out of their miserly budgets, nor can departments.

Hear, hear!!

I have my own copy of EndNote+ which I use on a Mac at home. So far I have
been unable to convince our department (35 academics with Macs using Word)
to invest in even one copy for use by those who have not taken the plunge.
There is a strong push in other campus departments (mainly Windows users)
for an alternative product which could then become a defacto standard
leaving us without the option to chose what I think is a better product.

Sensible pricing for small groups of multiple copies would probably boost
sales (and profits) despite lower margins on each copy.

Peter Albion
Department of Education
University of Southern Queensland
Australia