HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO MAKE A CHAPBOOK?
Possible profit margin has everything to do with whether a company has anything left to invest in marketing and advertising. There is little monetary profit for the publisher in chapbook publication. I have known some exceptions. Here are some factors. If you see a $10 cover price on a paper saddle-stitched chapbook, you could be tempted to think that’s a fairly hefty price for something you could use as a placemat if it doesn’t sell after you ran it off at Kinkos for a buck. Add to that printing cost the cost of stapling, then front trim (which my local Kinkos does not do well and we don’t use this trashy approach to chapbook publishing), and you have a cost so far of perhaps on average $2.50. But the majority of the cost of a chapbook is not the printing. Remember that, we’ll come back to it. HOW DID YOU GET HERE? Now many of us came along through some naive track involving poor rhymes and trite concepts, into a writers’ group that woke us up somewhat, or through some state poetry or
