April 6, 2006

Can Shareware Make Money?

The answer is yes. Of course the product must have some specialized functionality that consumers want and that hasn't been preempted by Microbloat $ware.

Take, for example, Winzip: in 2004 the company had $15.5 million profits on an income of $24.9 million. Pretty damn good!

Thomas Warfield has more here and here.

Posted by Steve on April 6, 2006
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