Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008 15:53, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > But who goes to the bookstore looking for SOFTWARE?
> >
> > Nobody has given a satisfactory answer to that question.
>
> Actually, here in Germany, this used to be pretty common,
> in particular for everything related to Linux. IIRC we
> made a large proportion of our box sales with that book
> store channel. This might have to do with sciense book
> stores in university cities having some tradition in
> selling books about Unix and X11.

That's great for the limited academic community, in
which a "college book store" is more like a small
department store, selling calculators, items for dorm
rooms, and sweatshirts, jackets, bumper stickers, coffee
cups, and anything else that has a college logo on it.

Away from a college campus, however, book stores
sell books and magazines, and optionally, music.

While getting college students IS important, you have
a LOT of people who are not in college, but who are
also good prospects for

> But times have changed, and most people buy software
> in electronics megastores where the salespeople rarely
> know anything about those colorful boxes they sell
> (unless it's the latest hottest game, of course, because
> they are already almost finished with it).

Exactly.  And they carry products which are meant
to be sold at "computer stores," not "book stores".


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