What's the price tag?

• Skills and time
  
  • Uses pre-existing web-building skills
  • Minimal time necessary to learn mechanics of CD-burning
  • Audio editing is relatively easy; video is more complicated but freelance help may not be difficult or expensive to find

• Equipment
  • Basic Web authoring can be done with less than $3,000 in computer and scanning equipment
  • CD writers: $500-$700
  • Audio editing: $50 shareware plus cost of cassette player
  • Video editing: $500 for software and hardware upgrades; add additional funds for VCR if none is available

• Production
  
  • To create Online Exhibition Sampler: less than one month FTE for all production management and some creative work; subsequent CDs took less time
  • Production costs: $6,000 for 2,000 CDs, including cost to design and print 8 panel four-color insert.