>>I'm holding a single CD-ROM -- a shiny plastic disc like those
>>used for music. It contains the complete text of every article
>>published for an entire year in the Journal of the American Medical
>>Association, the Archives of Internal Medicine, the Archives of
>>Family Medicine, the Archives of Surgery, the Archives of
>>Neurology and several other medical journals.
>>
>>With a few keystrokes or clicks of a mouse you can search
>>thousands of pages of text for the latest information about
>>hundreds of diseases.
>>
>>It could be handy if a doctor wanted to check his recollection
>>of an article describing the best treatment for your disease.
>>The disc costs $9.95.
>
>Could you provide me with some more information about that marvelous
CD-
>ROM - the price of $9.95 almost seems imbelievable to me, as some
other
>journals I know are a lot more expensive on CD ROM. Can you tell me
the
>manufacturer's address (Email or URL?) so that I can ask for some
>information (concerning shipping those CDs to Germany).
>
The author of that newspaper article included his e-mail address for
feedback. As most of the time, I was just the 'delivery boy'. I do know that
it is amazing what can be put on a CD rom. The cost of $9.95 is for the cost
of a BLANK CD Rom.
The authors remarks should have been prefaced with "If only,". Subscriptions
to the journals can be several hundred dollars EACH for a year. It's
unlikely that they would give their information away, and even if they did,
no compiler of the information would do their work for gratis.
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