Donations
When I started the blog for this zine, I had about 9 followers. Within a year, this has exploded to over 7000. I was initially planning to publish the printed zine on a run of about 50, but I soon realized that 50 wouldn’t be enough.
I want to make the zine accessible for all, with a pdf copy available online for free, and printed copies for £2 - just under enough to cover paper and printing, and postage is coming out of my own pocket. I am currently selling the zine at a loss of about 30p for UK orders and up to £2.50 for overseas orders.
I don’t want to raise the price of the zine, because I think that would compromise accessibility. I also can’t set up a kickstarter.com page, because I don’t have a US bank account. Thus the donation button on the blog homepage.
Please don’t feel obliged to donate. If you want to just read the pdf zine online for free, I’m cool with that. That’s what it’s there for! If, however, you would like to donate a little to help me get the printed zines out there, that would be greatly appreciated. If you enter your address with the donation and it’s the price of the zine or over, I will send you a copy for free, so I guess it’s more of a pre-order than anything.
As it stands, I am currently on track to start printing before Christmas. It’s going to be a really chunky zine, with submissions by others and articles written by me. I’m determined to find a way to make it happen regardless, but I thought I’d create a donations button and see if anyone might want to help me on my way.
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