Me-Zines

[out_there]

I’m thinking of printing up Not Homophobic and Like Sailing and Home Runs as little booklets (think of them as mini-zines for me). I was going to put them into one booklet, but then that booklet would be about 140 pages long (60 for LSHR and 80 for NH), which might be a bit long for a basic A4-bound document.

I was going to do it for me as a bit of a pride thing, as a physical example of what I can accomplish, but it occurred to me that if I’m going to the hassle of printing out pages and binding and photocopying, I might as well check if anyone else wants a copy.

It feels really, *really* self-promoting to be asking, but does anyone else want a copy? I would expect repayment of costs (no, I currently have no idea how much photocopying/binding will cost, but even if I can cover that, I certainly can’t afford to pay for international postage) but I wouldn’t be making a profit.

Basically, this is a post to see if anyone else would be interested. (If not, I’ll just go ahead and make mine.) Leave me a comment saying which story you’d want and the region I’d have to post it to. Then I can figure out costs, let you know, and you can decide if you definitely want it and the best way to repay me.

ETA: And in case you are curious, I'm planning on the most-basic-of-the-basic production values: Times New Roman, black and white, no images.

Comments

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Well, I just checked at OfficeWorks and came to a total cost of $23 per pair of stories. (Not counting postage.) You've made/bought a couple of zines -- does that sound like a reasonable cost rate?

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Officework... how much for per page copying? And binding? I thought it should be around $15 - $18 or so for 140 pages (assuming 8c to 9c per page copying), with around $3 - $5 for the most basic binding. Because you do get bulk discount for photocopying, and really, you can do the photocopying yourself. Print it out, and put it through the feeder, and you're done.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

$15-18? Then I'm doing well at $23 for two booklets (one of 85 pages double sided and one of 65 pages double sided). Since it'd be over two thousand pages, I'd be at their 6c a page cost.

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean you're splitting it into 2 books and a total of 23 for the two and not put the 2 into one and $23 for that? Then that's cool. :D

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Putting the two books into one would be 150 double sided pages, and would be about 3cm thick (on A4 paper). That's a bit too daunting for me to read easily.

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Heck, it could be even cheaper if you can find a place that does 5c photocopying. My old work place does. Well, not normally, but mention my name, and they'll give it to you. ;)