Nathan Tyree: publishing
Can self publishing work?
I’ve been involved in what I think of as a little experiment. I (along with some others) run a small E-zine called Magazine of the Dead (actually a ‘Blog-zine’). We publish print versions of this magazine through a POD service. We do the entire thing for free (using Blogspot and LuLu). Do we make any money?
Not really. No. Here’s a look at the numbers: The ‘zine gets about 100 unique visitors a day. The pages for our two print issues as LuLu.com have been viewed about 500 times each. Between those two issues we have sold about 25 copies so far. Since we paid nothing to produce all of this we are actually in the black- that may soon change. Magazine of the Dead is about to publish it’s first anthology. We’re going to spring for an ISBN and get real distribution (mostly through Amazon, B&N.com, etc, but it will be orderable through brick and mortar stores). When that happens we will need to sell 100 copies to break even. Then there’s the matter of paying our contributors (which we hope to do).
In other news: Leonard Nimoy is going to again play Spock in the upcoming Star Trek XI. There is no word on if Shatner will appear in the flick.
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Can self publishing work?
I’ve been involved in what I think of as a little experiment. I (along with some others) run a small E-zine called Magazine of the Dead (actually a ‘Blog-zine’). We publish print versions of this magazine through a POD service. We do the entire thing for free (using Blogspot and LuLu). Do we make any money?
Not really. No. Here’s a look at the numbers: The ‘zine gets about 100 unique visitors a day. The pages for our two print issues as LuLu.com have been viewed about 500 times each. Between those two issues we have sold about 25 copies so far. Since we paid nothing to produce all of this we are actually in the black- that may soon change. Magazine of the Dead is about to publish it’s first anthology. We’re going to spring for an ISBN and get real distribution (mostly through Amazon, B&N.com, etc, but it will be orderable through brick and mortar stores). When that happens we will need to sell 100 copies to break even. Then there’s the matter of paying our contributors (which we hope to do).
In other news: Leonard Nimoy is going to again play Spock in the upcoming Star Trek XI. There is no word on if Shatner will appear in the flick.
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