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<blockquote data-quote="jordan" data-source="post: 105055" data-attributes="member: 732">the more i think about it, the more i actually am insulted by the idea that making limited editions serves nobody but the publisher who hopes to resell them at a later date for his own profit.&nbsp; to wit: before i started chance press, my side hobby was buying and reselling books, and i could make more money on one sale that took me a total of probably an hour's time between finding the book, buying it, listing it for resale, and shipping it out than justine and i make on an entire chance press release that takes us months.&nbsp; now, i just don't have time to do the buying/reselling thing anymore, but doing chance press is so much more fulfilling that i don't care.&nbsp; if our books happen to appreciate, then i will be really happy - for the people who supported us by buying them, even though we were just starting out and had no track record at all.&nbsp; but you won't see me selling them off for huge profits, because we don't keep them - we sell them to people who love handmade books as much as we do.&nbsp; and fine if you're not one of those people, because you think that small press is all about promoting authors and nothing else.&nbsp; but to insinuate that people who do handmade editions are somehow doing authors a disservice as part of some kind of speculation game, seems pretty lame, especially when the converse, in this case, is a publisher whose main profit driver is taking money from the authors she publishes, both in terms of a reading fee, and also through the requirement that the author do all the promotion and buy up a significant number of copies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jordan, post: 105055, member: 732"] the more i think about it, the more i actually am insulted by the idea that making limited editions serves nobody but the publisher who hopes to resell them at a later date for his own profit. to wit: before i started chance press, my side hobby was buying and reselling books, and i could make more money on one sale that took me a total of probably an hour's time between finding the book, buying it, listing it for resale, and shipping it out than justine and i make on an entire chance press release that takes us months. now, i just don't have time to do the buying/reselling thing anymore, but doing chance press is so much more fulfilling that i don't care. if our books happen to appreciate, then i will be really happy - for the people who supported us by buying them, even though we were just starting out and had no track record at all. but you won't see me selling them off for huge profits, because we don't keep them - we sell them to people who love handmade books as much as we do. and fine if you're not one of those people, because you think that small press is all about promoting authors and nothing else. but to insinuate that people who do handmade editions are somehow doing authors a disservice as part of some kind of speculation game, seems pretty lame, [B]especially when the converse, in this case, is a publisher whose [I]main profit driver[/I] is taking money from the authors she publishes, both in terms of a reading fee, and also through the requirement that the author do all the promotion and buy up a significant number of copies.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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