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New CPC book?!

Started by Gryzor, 08:07, 10 July 20

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Shaun M. Neary

Nice door stop for those of us who can't speak French / understand though...  :laugh:
Currently playing on: 2xCPC464, 1xCPC6128, 1x464Plus, 1x6128Plus, 2xGX4000. M4 board, ZMem 1MB and still forever playing Bruce Lee.
No cheats, snapshots or emulation. I play my games as they're intended to be played. What about you?

TotO

Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 09:08, 10 July 20
Nice door stop for those of us who can't speak French / understand though...  :laugh:
Looks to have enough french readers and not enough english readers to no more translate their books. :-\
"You make one mistake in your life and the internet will never let you live it down" (Keith Goodyer)

roudoudou

Quote from: TotO on 11:34, 10 July 20
Looks to have enough french readers and not enough english readers to no more translate their books. :-\
Anecdote!

i was in germany to the Mekka Symposium 1997, a convention (mostly PC, some Amiga, some C64 and ONE CPC, mine!)
i was so happy to see AEG from Smash Design but he did not speak english and my technical german speaking was too poor to discuss with him...
so yes, there is many people speaking only one language. Too bad for me there is many active spanish people and too bad for the other there is many french people




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Gryzor

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Quote from: TotO on 11:34, 10 July 20
Looks to have enough french readers and not enough english readers to no more translate their books. :-\

Doesn't seem very likely. You need to consider the cross-section of the two groups (French and non-French users, both speaking English and wanting the book).

Shaun M. Neary

Quote from: TotO on 11:34, 10 July 20
Looks to have enough french readers and not enough english readers to no more translate their books. :-\


Which is fair enough, you need to know your target audience. No point in mass producing a product that isn't going to sell in certain markets.
Currently playing on: 2xCPC464, 1xCPC6128, 1x464Plus, 1x6128Plus, 2xGX4000. M4 board, ZMem 1MB and still forever playing Bruce Lee.
No cheats, snapshots or emulation. I play my games as they're intended to be played. What about you?

Skunkfish

Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 09:08, 10 July 20
Nice door stop for those of us who can't speak French / understand though...  :laugh:
It'll be a very pretty doorstop from the look of it, colour me interested.
An expanding array of hardware available at www.cpcstore.co.uk (and issue 4 of CPC Fanzine!)

TotO

Quote from: Gryzor on 12:13, 10 July 20Doesn't seem very likely. You need to consider the cross-section of the two groups (French and non-French users, both speaking English and wanting the book).
Some years ago, they have started to sell english versions of their best sellers on the english version of the website, and they have stoped.
"You make one mistake in your life and the internet will never let you live it down" (Keith Goodyer)

Gryzor

Quote from: TotO on 13:32, 10 July 20
Some years ago, they have started to sell english versions of their best sellers on the english version of the website, and they have stoped.

If those publications were already offered in French then yeah, I can see that, but that's not what I'm talking about. If they published the book in English *only*, wouldn't the final buying audience be bigger?

Speaking of which, I don't think I had ever heard of them before so obviously it'll be hard to sell to foreigners if they don't market their stuff internationally...

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