As of launch day, the profit/loss sheet is pretty simple.
Net: $3587
Income: $10,000
Commissions: $10,000
Outgo: $6413.00
All print editions: $120
- Font: $120
Special editions: $4984.10
- Postage (SASEs for paper ephemera): $210 (£140)
- Scanning (assistant, 41h at £10/h): $615 (£410)
- Prototype (binding only, printing was free): $361.13 (£240.75)
- Taxis (bringing interiors to bindery, coffee sacks to office): $42 (£28)
- SD cards x 30: $247.05 (£164.70)
- SD readers and hub: $29.93 (£19.95)
- Printing for first 20: $1094.39 (£729.59)
- Binding for first 20: $2250 (£1500)
- Shipping boxes (x30): $35.70 (£23.80)
- Rubber cement, tissue paper: $23.30 (£15.53)
- FedEx (shipped copy to designer as thanks for website): $75.60 (£50.40)
Paperbacks: $1058.90
- Art (Rudy Rucker): $400
- Art (Frank Wu): $200
- Art (Rick Lieder): $400
(Note: I paid each artist whatever he asked for) - Galleys from Lulu: $58.90
Audio: $250
- Studio time for “Chicken Little”: $250
