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Re: [ST] Re:Manual
- Subject: Re: [ST] Re:Manual
- From: Marlin Jones <marlinj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:42:41 -0700
Howdy:
It's sad to say, but $100 for a factory manual is not out of line these
days. I paid that much for my Jeep manuals in '95 and '96. And BMW car
manuals are even more, when/if you can find one. I expec that BMW bikes
may be similar...
A factory manual is pretty expensive to do - lots of specs that have to
be defined and re-checked, tons of photos and drawings to do, and of
course you have to completely strip a bike down to the bones in the
process. Given what it takes to write manuals where I work (computer
R&D) in engineering time I expect that $100 (given how much it costs to
produce a manual and how relatively few are sold) does not make much
money (if any!) for Triumph.
Sure, Clymer/Haynes/etc. are much cheaper. But they're much weaker
manuals, and I've always had a suspicion that they copy big chunks of
the factory manuals...
mj
PS. What I'd really like to see is the part fiches on-line like
Kawasaki has. That'd save me lots of time and trips.
Paul Fox wrote:
>
> > However since I know it doesn't cost them anything close to $100 to print
> > the book, it seems that they would sell a lot more of them at a more
> > realistic price and probably make just as much money. Not to mention
>
> i guess my real point is that if they have to charge $100 because they're
> not actually in the book business, and because the distribution is really
> quite expensive, then they're using the wrong distribution mechanism. on
> the other hand, if the book _doesn't_ cost them anything like $100, then
> they're ripping us off. i haven't bought the book yet, and won't, until
> i'm positive i need it. and i'm someone who would have said he'd _always_
> own the service manual for his bike. so they've lost at least one
> sale due to their pricing.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
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