Hmm.
I attended the Zinefest in Milwaukee this weekend. Had a nice talk with a guy who ran a distro (that's a distributing 'company' for home made zines) and who had gotten his comic strip published in book format. HARDCOVER! 300 pages!
His publisher was up in Canada. They'd done a print run of 4,000 books. Price was set at $29.99. Out of that he got $2 per book. If he wanted copies he could purchase them at half cost. So the most he took in as an author for that would be $8,000. Don't quit the day job.
Sure, the publisher takes on the printing costs, the storage fees, shipping, etc. And the middle man takes a huge chunk too, but TWO DOLLARS per book for the author/artist? Wow.
Sure makes it more appealing to look at self publishing. Hey?
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