Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Barely -- just done a google-search for images of Sappho and Anacreon to get
> pretty pictures for the cover -- admittedly, I didn't cost-in a wrap-around
> 160 gm cover, printed by ink-jet (colour) -- that would add at the most
> another 10p.
>
An offer for future reference. On PA I have access to 140
printmakers, mostly professionals, some of whom have already
done book illustrations. If at any time you, or anyone else
on this lust, require some illustrative work please consider
a collaborative effort with one of them. I am happy to post
any image requests to PA and I'm sure that many would jump
at the chance to collaborate. At the moment we are
undertaking a project themed 'illustration' where the
particpants are responding to a fragment of text of their
choice and making an edition of prints to exchange. We are
also setting up an exchnage based on digital printmaking
which is another story
>
> > and the cost of paying your accounting adviser (cash only
> > please)
>
> Still, bottom line, comes to well under £1 as against £2.50.
Was that 40p to me? Promise not to spend it all at once ...
All that was off the top of my head, in practice, 'real'
cost accounting gets much much more complicated. I was
merely pointing out some of the factors that tend to get
overlooked when people gasp at the price of things. What I
did leave out is the environmental and social costings but
that's also another story.
>
> I had one of those chain-phone-calls on this. The Demon Princess said,
> "Daddy, you're an idiot -- they paid mum £100 for the cover of _The Coffee
> House_." Not that long after, my ex-wife was on the phone ["Do you know
> where our daughter is at the moment?"] and I said, inter alia, DID they pay
> you £100 for the cover of _The Coffee House_?" and she said, "Are you
> joking? Zilch."
Yes, well, I can relate to this. Artists have all the same
problems that writers have it would seem, with the added
factor of material costs. Most of the time they dont break
even on materials and are expected to be grateful for an
opportunity to get their work seen - but I'm not telling you
anything you didn't already know, am I? [funnily enough -
mine own daughter gets occasionally called demon-spawn, are
they related?]
>
> > just knew that commerce degree would come in handy for
> > something
>
> Well, if you're so clever, _you_ print dave's b*gg*r*d to b*ts*y Chide 1.
Not _that_ kind of printmaker *chuckle* How much is he
payin?
josephine
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