How much would you pay?

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I am trying to make a bit of money by selling bootable Linux CDs and USBs. How much would you pay for an 8 GB bootable USB?

How much does a little 8GB pendrive cost? About that much.

Anywhere from 6 to 30 dollars.

The cost of the USB thumb drive (~$10 U.S.; less in bulk).

I make my own 16 GB bootable USB thumb drives. It's easy; just go to a Linux distro webpage and follow the instructions.

Bootable CDs are cheaper and just as easy for the same reasons - anyone with the right equipment and an Internet connection can do it themselves.

I know that but for some odd reason there is a successful site that sells 32 GB bootable Linux, BSD and Unix USB drives for $35.

If they can do it, so can I.

I know it's simple you don't even need to follow the instructions unless it's Arch Linux or something. However they (OS Disc) make a lot of money selling them and if they can do it, how hard can it be for me to.

A person who can't do this himself, should stay away from the best Linux distros (Slackware, Arch, etc.)--and shouldn't even think about using *BSD. People buy these sticks from the official stores to show support for the projects -- since the foundations that make these are usually on a tight budget. Mint is already pre-installed on several computers in the store (the MintBox has proven to be popular as a media center and a retro gaming console), and Ubuntu is in steep decline (for many good reasons).

OSDisc isn't an official store, to my knowledge.

I use Ubuntu, I'm thinking of switching to Debian soon.

While most Linux distros can be found for free at Distrowatch, sticking one on a USB key, adding office like programs and other nifty stuff for home use could become a working business. In time stuff like that could grow.

If you do this, you have to think about the end user that do not want to muck about with settings, configuration files, console commands and stuff like that, so something SIMPLE like Ubuntu with some kind of automated security would be a good bet, with or without some cloud storage from a free source (google docs).

Be clear with that you do not provide support and that the user have to go and find his/her own from the internet, and you can only provide pointers to where to go (Comparison: Microsoft provides no support for home users).

Running your own business also requires a lot of social interaction, if you are not OK with that, then skip this idea.

Quite true. I buy a copy of nearly every OpenBSD distribution for just that reason.

The only time I missed one since I started using OpenBSD was because the web site to order them from didn't seem to work with my browser.