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<blockquote data-quote="Great Mastiff Games" data-source="post: 1883092" data-attributes="member: 25783"><p>Well, let's see. It would cost about $1000 to have 2000 booklets printed up. Then let's say that I shipped 5 each to 400 different stores.&nbsp; That would mean about $1.50 media mail per bundle, or $600 per shipment. But how many of those would be simply thrown out? Let's say that 20% were actually handed out, to be VERY optimistic.&nbsp; That would make 400 booklets handed out.&nbsp; Out of those, probably about 3% to 4% would generate sales, or in other words up to 16 books sold.&nbsp; Each of those 16 books would be ordered through the store, so I'd be getting $14.99 each for them; out of this would come $6.25 for printing, $1.50 for having the book shipped to me, $1 for the envelope, $3.85 at least shipping the book to the store.&nbsp; So I'd be getting around $2.39 each.&nbsp; That would mean that I sold $38.24 worth of books at an expense of $1,600.&nbsp; Net profit: $ -1,561.76.&nbsp; It's a nice thought, and I appreciate your trying to find a solution for me ... but nothing is going to turn the book into even a very small success, I'm afraid.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Great Mastiff Games, post: 1883092, member: 25783"] Well, let's see. It would cost about $1000 to have 2000 booklets printed up. Then let's say that I shipped 5 each to 400 different stores. That would mean about $1.50 media mail per bundle, or $600 per shipment. But how many of those would be simply thrown out? Let's say that 20% were actually handed out, to be VERY optimistic. That would make 400 booklets handed out. Out of those, probably about 3% to 4% would generate sales, or in other words up to 16 books sold. Each of those 16 books would be ordered through the store, so I'd be getting $14.99 each for them; out of this would come $6.25 for printing, $1.50 for having the book shipped to me, $1 for the envelope, $3.85 at least shipping the book to the store. So I'd be getting around $2.39 each. That would mean that I sold $38.24 worth of books at an expense of $1,600. Net profit: $ -1,561.76. It's a nice thought, and I appreciate your trying to find a solution for me ... but nothing is going to turn the book into even a very small success, I'm afraid. [/QUOTE]

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