The price is relative of each country, taxes, and more. Corel receive almost the same money for all countries, although the price on some countries is twice the price on other
arun bhati said:IMO, the Coral Corp should offer Three user pack for Printers only for the ease of work.
Laws are different on each country. If you need to use the program on more than one computer, on most countries you can buy an extra licence for lower price. Also, the standard licence on most countries allows to install on two computers, such as at home and at work, since it's supposed that you don't use both at the same time. I don't know if it's the same on India.
You should think in the price of the software as a part of the total process, same as paper, computers, chair, desktop, etc. if you invest 800 dollars on a new computer, you need to remember that you will need to replace it on one or two years. Some people calculate the price of a laser printer only by consumables. toner, paper, but not the printer itself, it should be a part of the price for replace the printer after two or three years of use (sometimes more, sometimes less). That's a difference between companies that are bankrupt and others are thriving.
The software is also part of the cost. If you receive only 10 jobs by day for print, 20 day per month, that means 200 jobs per month. If the software change every two years, that means 24 months, 24x200=4800 jobs. Divide the price of the program (US$ 499 in the USA), that means 0.1 for each print. If you receive more jobs, the individual cost is even lower.
Also, calculate how many jobs did you every day. Suppose that you create only 10 job by day. Then, you should charge 0.1 dollar to each design. Do you believe it's a high cost or it's expensive? If you can't charge 0.1 dollar to your design, something is wrong.
What's the real value of the program? calculate the cost of the fonts. You receive around 1000 of commercial fonts, free for you. If the average prince is $ 50, that means you receive $50.000 on fonts. Calculate the price of photos, textures, etc.
Some prople believe that all on internet should be free. Unfortunately, this is not possible. There're several commercial licences very expensive, also the cost of production and distribution.
Ariel, It is same in India too. But the fact is that the last words in your post and in the EULA are conveniently ignored and it is used on both machines simultenously.
If you need to use the program on more than one computer, on most countries you can buy an extra licence for lower price. Also, the standard licence on most countries allows to install on two computers, such as at home and at work, since it's supposed that you don't use both at the same time. I don't know if it's the same on India.
There are thousands of Printers that, do not or, can not charge for designing, because: 1. Competition, 2. Customer do not want that kind of design, that the latest Coral offers, so he does not pay for the designing efforts 3. the printer just need the Coral on his printing Machine, just to check the file and make required corrections. 4. Yes, these printers do designing, but again that is only, corrections, additions, and subtractions only. 5. and for this small, yet most important work, a printer can like me, can buy one copy.
Uresh Shah said:Mr. Ariel you didnot specified price for india ? or you didn't want ?
I don't live on India, then I don't knwo the prices, but according with you, you already mentioned the price of CorelDRAW, and seems similar than on other countries
[arun bhati
Two years back the Coral draw was at rs 40000-45000, depends on your bargain,Since then, every money in the market has diminished, i phone priced also reduced drastically.But, now the current price for the New Coral Draw is rs 60000-65000.