Sun Microsystems 5 manual Bundle Pricing

■If the Vending Manager’s Auto-stocking option is turned on, the content is immediately reactivated. The bundle’s property page shows a status of Active for the content and the content is available to subscribers again.

■If the Auto-stocking option is turned off, you must restock the content in the Vending Manager to reactivate the bundle.

See “Editing a Bundle” on page 183, “Stocking Content Manually” on page 142, and “Setting Stocking Options” on page 141 for more information.

Bundle Pricing

When you create a bundle, you set a purchase price for the bundle, not for each of the individual content items within the bundle. Bundles can use only a First Download pricing model. Use of the individual content items, however, are dependent on their individually assigned pricing models. For example, a subscriber pays a single purchase price to get a bundle containing an image and a ring tone. The image has a Per Use pricing model and the ring tone has an Every Download pricing model. The subscriber’s access to the picture is determined by the allowed number of uses and access to the ring tone by the allowed number of downloads.

Due to the delivery mechanisms of some DRM types (see “Content Protection” on page 20), content using a Per Subscription or a Trial pricing model cannot be included in a bundle. The following list explains the usage conditions for content items in a bundle with different pricing models:

■Free always - Content item can be downloaded and used for an unlimited amount of time.

■Trial (free for N uses) - Free trials are not available through bundles.

■First download only - Content item can be downloaded and used for an unlimited amount of time. The subscriber paid for a bundle containing this content item so does not incur a charge for downloading content item.

■Every download - The subscriber paid for a bundle containing this content item so does not incur a charge for initial download of this content item. The subscriber is charged for every additional download of this content item.

■Per use - After initial download, subscriber is not charged for N uses of this content item. When this content item is used for the maximum Nth time, subscriber is charged for each additional use. If the subscriber attempts to download this content item again, an offer to purchase this item for another N uses is made.

■Per period - After initial download, the subscriber is not charged for using this content item for the stated number of days, weeks, or months. At the end of the period, subscriber must repurchase content to continue use.

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