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A strongly worded article about the "Bait and Switch" tactic and misleading claims of a shareware author written by a purchaser of the product.
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PhotoOp Jefferey Menish  Once you register the software you THINK you have purchased in good faith, you are sent this upgrade notification: Should you wish to create PhotoOp screen savers for distribution to others, an upgrade from the Personal to the Professional Edition...
http://photoop.freeservers.com/

Collection of articles written for the Association of Shareware Professional's Newsletter, ASPects, as well as summaries of some of the presentations made at the Shareware Industry Conference, and the European Shareware Conference, by Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions, Ltd.
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Software marketing articles by Dave Collins improve your online software sales and learn important online marketing techniques.  Software marketing articles by Dave Collins Selling software on the web is no simple task, and the past few years have seen many programmers and developers trying their hand at it. Many of them walk away disappointed a few months...
http://www.davetalks.com/

Software Author resource news.
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Software Marketing Resource for software developers, authors and software publishers  Feeds blog feed article feed newsletter feed software success Welcome to the Software Marketing Resource create RSS feeds FeedForAll Easily create, edit and publish rss feeds. New RSS feeds can be quickly and easily created with FeedForAll. adware options -using...
http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/

Article discussing why some shareware authors are fearing that a lot of shareware may vanish as the task of rewriting and making things work with an OS that is "extension hostile" will lead to better utility software from a smaller number of developers.
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creativepro.com Shareware developers speak out on Mac OS X, Aqua  Shareware developers speak out on Mac OS X, Aqua By Dennis Sellers Thursday, February 10, 2000 ViewMoreIn: Systems Hardware Web ProductPages: Mac OS by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.comSome shareware authors took issue with a statement in Tuesday's story, Mac OS X,...
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/3934.html

This notice has been posted because of the numerous requests for technical support for "StayOn Pro" that have been received.
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StayOn Pro Important Notice  This notice has been posted because of the numerous requests for technical support for StayOn Pro that I have received. Please be advised that I am NOT the author of StayOn Pro I am the author of the anti-logoff utility...
http://members.aol.com/theriverhawk/stayonpronotice.html

Article discussing the best way to arrive at a final price for products by Jeff Camino.
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Euro-Share The Shareware industry's leading daily discussion list  Pricing is always a difficult decision. Often a price that is too low makes people perceive your program as being inconsequential and not worth the trouble of purchasing (for you or them On the other hand, a price set too...
http://www.euro-share.com/pricing.asp

An editorial discussing and explaining what shareware is and the pros and cons of shareware by Stacee Barcelata.
http://www.zdnet.com/products/st...es/reviews/0,4161,917147,00.html