DVD 25 ans de C't
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Provenant de:"Stephan Ehrmann, c't" <s...@ctmagazin.de>
Dear Software publisher,
this year is the 25th anniversary of c't magazine. We celebrate this
jubilee throughout the year with various activities like a programming
competition. Our anniversary issue on Monday, the 10th of November, will
come with a very special edition of our c't software collection. For the
first time, this covermount DVD comprises only full or special versions,
no freeware. We kindly invite you to participate by providing software
for this outstanding DVD.
As a software publisher or author, you benefit in various ways.
Your software is introduced to a large number of expert software users.
You will also have the opportunity to refer to other products in your
software line-up. Aditionally, you might want to offer an upgrade from
an older version of a program, which will be published on the DVD, to
the current full version.
We have been publishing c't software collections for a number of years
now. Participating publishers are virtually always surprised by the
positive feedback. Of course, not all of the presumably 500.000
readers of our anniversary issue will try all of the software on this
special DVD. To our knowledge, software useful for a broad audience
might easily generate 10.000 registrations, the most popular software
even more.
Older versions of a program are fine as long as they work with current
hardware and operating systems. Unlike our normal c't software
collections that adress particular genres, the anniversary DVD will
cover all areas of application software. In case you would like to
participate but cannot offer a full version, you might as well provide a
special version of your software with reduced functionality. Please
note, however, that those special versions must still contain a useful
set of functions. A CAD tool, that wouldn't save any data or video
editing software, that does not export any video, would not be of any
help for our readers and therefore for you.
Very important: We do not intend to include any time limited demos.
You can either provide software ready to be installed or you arrange a
registration procedure via your website in which case we will include
the link to your registration page in the software description that can
be found in the user interface of the DVD. In case of such a
registration procedure, we would like to ask you to assure our readers
that their data will not be shared with third parties and to make sure
that registration is possible at least until the 10th of May 2009, i.e.
for a minimum period of six month. Please do not hesitate to contact us
if you have any questions concerning the registration process.
Our database frontend will ask you, whether you would like us to place a
link in the software description of the DVDs user interface, whether you
provide a full or a special version and what the strengths of your
software are, along with other details about your software. Using
the following link you can access our database to create a new entry and
enter the required information about the software you provide:
http://www.heise.de/bin/ct/shareware/cdprod.pl?id=neu&prod=sw0807&l=e
In case you would like to enter more than one program please do not use
the return button of your browser. Instead, please access the URL again.
If you want to provide all readers with the same serial number in order
to ease the procedure, please type this number into the field labelled
"serial number needed to activate the program". The following page gives
you the opportunity to upload one screenshot per program. This
screenshot will be shown on the DVDs user interface.
Once you have entered all information and saved it by using the OK
button, you will automatically receive an e-mail as a receipt. This
e-mail contains a link to our database that enables you to access your
data any time and edit them, if needed.
We would like to point out that our editors will examine the
software suggested for the anniversary issue and will pick the most
attractive applications and tools. With this quality check we make sure,
that our anniversary DVD will contain the best software available. Of
course, we'll inform you in advance whether your particular software
will be part of the anniversary software collection.
Please do not hesitate to answer this mail if you have either any
questions with regard to the DVD for our anniversary issue or if you are
uncertain whether a specific software would be suitable. We are also
happy to help if there are any problems with the actual procedure of
suggesting a program.
We would like to conclude this mail with one request: Please keep the
contents of this mail confidential.
Kind regards,
Stephan Ehrmann
Executive Editor
** "c't Magazin für Computertechnik" is a bi-weekly magazine that
addresses advanced IT users. With more than 250.000
standing orders we are the computer journal with the largest number of
subscribers in Europe. Issues with a covermount DVD usually sell about
400.000 times. Total numbers as certified by IVW include issues without
a DVD and are slightly smaller. On the strength of past experience there
will probably be an additional demand for the anniversary issue.