ASPects is the monthly online newsletter of the Association of Shareware Professionals, serving both as the publication of record for reporting news, official business, and member benefits to the membership, and helping members to create and sell software using try-before-you-buy marketing. Our readers are mostly programmers, independent software publishers, web site developers marketing or distributing software, and other micro-ISVs.

ASPects contains confidential and proprietary information, and so is normally not available to non-members, but one issue per year is usually distributed at the annual Software Industry Conference. The most recent convention special issue is available for download in PDF format.

July 2009 Volume 22, No. 7 (820 Kb)

"Why Join the ASP?" by Jim Coutu
"Digital ASPects Countdown Continues..." by Jerry Stern
"Adjusting Prices to Maximize Profit" by Jeff Camino
"Game Developer's Corner: Indie Game Publishers and the Economy: What, Me Worry?" by Diwant Vaidya
"Recent Interesting Threads in the Newsgroups" by Mike Dulin
"Q&A: The ASP"
"In the News... Mobile Computing" by Ed Pulliam
ASP Member News: "WinZip Announce New Zipx Format",
"Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Timelines Shared at Computex"

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