Re: CD Market

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

Nancy, if you are looking for a way to use Jeff's good material, CD's or 
DVD's might keep the work showcased, yet not be either a big moneymaker or a 
big troublemaker.

I sell one Windows CD from my website and at talks. It is about making 
papercrete troughs and is located on the bottom (!) of a web page with free 
trough making directions, http://www.mackeybooks.com/make_a_trough.html . 
Although the bottom is the worst placement, people who are motivated use the 
purchase button. The trough book button is at the top of the same page and 
the free directions are in the middle. I print and nicely label these CD's 
at home a few at a time and make up batches as needed. There is no 
encryption but I say that the disks are copyrighted material. People are 
allowed to project the show to a group but not copy it. I have no idea 
whether anyone is copying it or not, but chances are it has happened.

The similarity to your situation is that this CD is a show I already had 
around. I made it with ProShow Gold and gave it several times as a talk to 
garden clubs. With the addition of more recipes and directions, I had a 
stand-alone silent show. I included other files on the disk such as 
printable trough-making directions in a pdf file. I know it has been shown 
to several groups including local master gardeners and I like that. My 
minimal costs are the blank disks, labels, CD holders, shipping envelopes, 
and PayPal fees. It helps sell books and is sometimes bought in tandem with 
the trough book.

If you do try to sell DVD's or CD's, have them relate to other things you 
are doing or other products you offer, and either print them yourself or 
have very limited numbers made. If demand ever merits, you can easily have a 
disk printing provider make more.

Betty Mackey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Szerlag" <szerlag@earthlink.net>

> Does anyone have recent experience in the retail CD market? Jeff Ball
> did a series of garden videos many years years ago.  They were well
> received by the master gardeners and were used in master gardener
> classes. However, they never sold to the masses. In fact gardening
> videos never took off and went the way of the Edsel. Have things changed?

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