Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Issues Surrounding Software Distribution

The hardest part of software distribution is not in the selling of the product. More mail-order outlets and computer-related stores are open than ever before. Even discount stores and warehouse chains carry software as if software were a staple item for our daily lives. Through ASP technology, you'll soon be renting software over the Internet. Software companies are looking for new titles to distribute and new programmers to write the code. Software mail-order catalogs are numerous. The business of computers today gives you many avenues in which to market your product.

Just because you wrote a program that works on your computer with your software settings certainly does not mean that the program will ...