Having a digital copy is nothing like having the physical though :P
I mean, somebody could download them off your site then print them out
but it's just not the same.
~Mew the Skunk~
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Take a wild, friggin guess"
<a_change_of_plans_at_...> wrote:
>
> --- 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 - 09:28:31 CST