Nancy Young wrote:

> ChattyCathy wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>>>> It was in the neighborhood of $7,500.
>>>
>>>> Heh. That's pretty darn good.
>>>
>>> It was quite a success. Hats off to rfc.
>>>
>>>> So you must have had about five or six hundred copies printed?
>>>
>>> You'd think it would be seared in my memory, but no. We did
>>> have to do a second printing. Maybe it was 400, then another
>>> 200. That's such a guess. Doing the math, I think it would have
>>> to have been more like 700 total.
>>
>> Wow, 700 copies; that leaves $200 for printing, binding and shipping.
>> If you still have the contact details for those printers, I have some
>> other stuff that I'd like to publish, and if that's all it's gonna
>> cost me, it suddenly becomes affordable...
>
> No, that's not right at all. It cost much more than $200. I'm
> not sure where you came up with that number. Also, any
> calculations would have to take into account that there were
> people who donated $ to the effort. And you'd be relying on
> my hazy memory of the details.
>

I worked it out at $11.00 per copy for 700 copies, which would have
amounted to $7700.00.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.f...3?dmode=source

However, if folks donated more than the $11.00 per copy, that makes
perfect sense.


> And, you have to pay the printers for shipping, I am sure you'd
> be better off finding a place near you rather than in California.

<laugh> Not likely. The printers 'round here charge a fortune for
printing anything; it may well work out cheaper for me to email the PDF
to CA and have them send the printed matter out to the addressees (and
charge said addressees for the P&P) ;-)

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Chatty Cathy