In article , J G Miller wrote:

This recent discussion also brought back to mind a radio drama
series which I only heard one or two episodes of from 1984 or
so that was broadcast on public radio stations. After a web
search I found the title "Moon Over Morocco" and the company
that produced it, ZBZ. Visiting their web site I discovered
that it is possible to buy the series on CD, but they are
charging the exorbitant price of USD 50 for the single CD.

How does ZBS get it to fit on one CD? It's nearly ten hours long.
I think the version we had at WREK came on twenty LPs.

Other CDs on their site of other radio shows which they produced
are in the USD 20 price range, which although high by todays
prices for CDs is rather more reasonable for such specialist
material.

But USD 50 for a single CD???

I seriously doubt they managed to get the whole thing onto a single CD.
How much is Fourth Tower of Inverness? That one was also a whole stack
of LPs and I had to dub the intro cuts on every single one of them to cart.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Tuesday, August 14th, 2012, at 13:50:52h -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote:

How does ZBS get it to fit on one CD?

Oops red face

I only looked at the overview page which just had (CD) under the image
and the price of USD 50.

Going to the page with all the details, it is 8 *audio* CDs, so in fact
it works out to USD 6.125 per CD which is of course very reasonable.

If I got the impression that it was one CD, I would suggest that a few
other people may as well, if they just skim the page.

Yes I know, I should have checked the actual details, but when it is
late and one is just doing a cursory investigation ...

I seriously doubt they managed to get the whole thing onto a single CD.

Well they could do if it was a data CD with MP3 files. In fact they do
also offer those (320 kbps) for USD 45 which you would admit is effectively
more expensive per bit.

How much is Fourth Tower of Inverness?

6 audio CDs for USD 45.00

If you want to have a look at what it is on offer --

http://www.zbs.org/catalog/

Now that I realize that the prices are for multi-CD sets,
the prices are not too bad.

In article , J G Miller wrote:

Going to the page with all the details, it is 8 *audio* CDs, so in fact
it works out to USD 6.125 per CD which is of course very reasonable.

If I got the impression that it was one CD, I would suggest that a few
other people may as well, if they just skim the page.

In terms of stupid hippie jokes per dollar, it's one of the best deals you
can get today short of the Firesign Theatre albums.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Tuesday, August 14th, 2012, at 15:56:10h -0400, J G Miller wrote:

Going to the page with all the details, it is 8 *audio* CDs, so in fact
it works out to USD 6.125 per CD which is of course very reasonable.

OOPS again -- USD 6.25 per CD.