2015 Year-End Numbers and Open Thread

[ladysisyphus]

If you've been here for the stats posts in the past, you'll notice things look a little different this time! That's because Google Analytics has been watching both s2b2 and shousetsubangbang.com, and the numbers from there are a lot more detailed than the ones LiveJournal generates.

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[ladysisyphus]

Yet another exciting complication with print issues is the money issue: We don't want to charge, or even appear to be charging, for things people gave us for free. While that doesn't rule out having people pay for materials+shipping alone, it does make us wary about getting into things where money changes hands.

That being said: I'd really like to see if we can get them done someday, even zine-style and bound ourselves. So rest assured, this idea isn't completely out of left field.

Doing a best-of all-volunteer issue would probably be the best way around a lot of concerns. We actually solicited authors and artists, some years ago, to pick their best work for a digital collection; for a variety of reasons, the collection has not yet come together, though I have dreams that someday it will. I'd want to do another round of volunteering, though, in part because I'd want people to know that their work would possibly be used as part of monetary transactions they wouldn't see dividends on.

We've also talked about doing a pay-what-you-want at Smashwords that would be redistributed proportionally to the contributors, but ... yikes, consider the potential logistical nightmares there. And again, we don't even want to look like we're making money off someone else's work without their permission.

Don't think your offer of layout skills and labor has fallen on deaf ears, though. Just watch, I'm going to hold you to that....