Here's an update on the TAG comic book... I need to do some research to see just how much it
will cost. That will inform the discussion we need to have- namely, how
much does each contributor pay? Do we do it by the page? Will we have
color in this thing, or will it be all B & W? We will want to have
a few pages in the book for an introduction and bios, as well as a page
or two for signing/drawing on.
Emerald City comic con
has started selling tables in Artist Alley. Here are the details:
http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/artist-alley/ They have sold out
before, and there's a lot of folks already listed for next year, so if
you want to sell books and other stuff, I would suggest
getting on this now. There aren't any rules about sharing tables, so 2
people can share a table to cut costs.
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Okay, here's the skinny:
Lulu:
If we produce an 80 page, B & W paperback book with a cardstock cover it's $7.00 per book. Assuming Assuming we have 15 contributors and each person contributes 5 pages, the cost to print per person is $175.
Ka-blam:
If we produce an 80 page, B & W paperback book with a cardstock cover it's $4.55 per book. Assuming we have 15 contributors and each person contributes 5 pages, the cost to print per person is $113.75.
As you can see, some of these numbers are arbitrary... I don't relish trying to figure out costs per page and include costs for some extra pages for bios, intro, signing/drawing page and the like. However, if we find that some folks want to only do a couple of pages and others want to do a 10 page story, then figuring out a per page cost may make some sense.
Lulu is bigger operation and seems to be pretty reliable, but quite a bit more expensive. Ka-Blam is a smaller operation and are difficult to contact if there are issues with your order. I'm not saying they won't work it out, but the don't really do correspondence very well. They are a small operation and I don't think they make a lot of money at it.
We can work with a regular printer, I suppose, but I think that would take up a lot more (of my) time, so I'm not so keen on that route.
I didn't even get into getting a bar code for retail sales... I think that's overkill for what we are up to, but I'm open to it if someone has a good argument for getting one. All I know is that it's an additional cost ($75?)
Thoughts?
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