--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "xmewxchanx" <xmewxchanx@...>
wrote:
>
> Thats why we should have a little donation thing to help you pay for
> the publishing costs.
Actually, it's not going to cost me anything more than my time to
publish the books, since AV Press has expressed interest in the title
(s). I just have to get everything scanned and prepped so they can
get it printed.
If you're talking about folios and prints, well, the cost of
production is figured into the retail price of the folio. For
example, a $25 dollar folio (retail) equals $17 wholesale. Subtract
the cost of production (about $10 average), and you're left with a
whopping seven dollar profit per folio. Thankfully, this genre is
just a hobby, since one could never expect to make a living from such
wages and still manage to have a decent standard of living. Since I
don't live in a commune and eat ramen noodles all day, such an
arrangement just won't work. ;P
>
> Just a shot in the dark, would you consider bringing back some out
of
> print portfolios if that system was up?
Unfortunately, a lot of the out-of-print folios cannot be reprinted
since I don't have the originals to them anymore. A couple
were/are "limited edition" runs, so they couldn't be reprinted
without pissing folks off. The website, however, will feature every
folio page and print that I've produced, even the ones that were
never published and/or sold to the public, so folks could at least
see some of the hard-to-find pictures.
--JMH
Received on Wed Jan 16 2008 - 05:14:16 CST