Re: Shareware Registration rates? Author please comment.

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 09:40

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In article <1992Jul18.> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu 
writes:>From: z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
>Subject: Shareware Registration rates? Author please comment.
>Date: 18 Jul 92 01:16:14 CST
>
>     Howmany shareware Authors are out there? I would like to know about
>howmany people register ( percentage )

Well, I have a shareware product, which is quite successful, but I really
don't have the slightest idea how big the percentage is - I may receive
registrations for X copies per month, but I really cannot know how many
people use my product without registering.

Maybe 1-in-5 registers, maybe 1-in-50....probably somewhere in between - it
is simply not possible to know.

On the other hand, the very same applies to "regual" shrink-wrap software - 
you really don't know how many people use pirated copies.

All I know is that the number of users registering is high enoug for me...

-frisk

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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: Shareware Registration rates? Author please comment.
Keywords: Shareware
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Date: 7 Aug 92 09:40:10 GMT
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