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Subject:Pricing of documentation? From:Geoff Hart <Geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 9 Aug 1999 11:06:12 -0400
Krista Kostuch is <<...currently trying to come up with some
numbers for pricing our documentation. Most of our
documentation will be distributed electronically in PDF
format. We are also planning on customizing our
documentation for our customers.>>
As a simplistic starting point, ask your accounting department
to tell you the total annual budget for your workgroup or
department. Divide the number of copies (or pages) of the
documentation that you plan to distribute into that total, and
you've got a good ballpark estimate of the minimum cost to
produce each unit. You can get as sophisticated as you want
to refine this figure: include a fudge factor for SME time,
divide up the total budget among multiple projects, use last
year's data or projections for next year, etc. etc. And (of
course!), add in the cost of any printed materials you
produce. But setting a baseline cost isn't rocket science.
