August 2009
Beginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
Although many stores sell packaged Macintosh software, you'll find a much greater variety of software by searching the Internet.
Selling software in stores is expensive. The software publisher needs to pay for a CD or DVD and a pretty box, and then it sells the product to a distributor who then sells and ships it to a store. By selling software directly over the Internet, software publishers save money, so they may pass the savings on to you by offering a discount if you buy and download their programs over the Internet.
When you buy software over the Internet, the software publisher can send you a CD/DVD containing the program, but more than likely you'll download the program online, typically as a compressed ...