{"id":2097,"date":"2007-10-18T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/10\/cds_v_downloads\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T12:30:27","slug":"cds_v_downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/cds_v_downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"CDs v Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most things, if you opt to download the material rather than get physical media, if there&#8217;s any difference in price, it&#8217;s cheaper to download. Think of iTunes v CDs, or software that you can download from many sellers. There&#8217;s no postage or packaging to account for, and minimal physical production costs.<br \/>\nSo it&#8217;s odd then, that this morning I got an email from Adobe to my work address trying to get me to upgrade to Photoshop CS3, but which gives cheaper prices if I pay for the physical media rather than download a large file. I realise that thousands of people downloading 700+ MB is a significant bandwidth cost. But sending me a big box through the post should not be cheaper.<br \/>\nTry it <a href=\"https:\/\/store2.adobe.com\/cfusion\/store\/index.cfm?store=OLS-UK&#038;nr=0#view=ols_prod&#038;loc=en_gb&#038;store=OLS-UK&#038;categoryOID=1598153&#038;distributionOID=105&#038;nr=0\">yourself<\/a>.<br \/>\nVery odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most things, if you opt to download the material rather than get physical media, if there&#8217;s any difference in price, it&#8217;s cheaper to download. Think of iTunes v CDs, or software that you can download from many sellers. There&#8217;s no postage or packaging to account for, and minimal physical production costs. So it&#8217;s odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}