So we've already had one inquiry about whether we're doing a print run of PUSH, and I was recalling Chris or Eero saying that they'd much rather have a half-dozen contributor copies than the $30-50 that each person might otherwise get.

So here's my initial proposal, which I'm just running by people. We've got another month or so before we really need to start thinking about this.

- we pump all money gained through the first month or so of PDF sales into a print run

- these become contributor copies which are distributed evenly among all contributors (including artists, if they want to participate in this). maybe we'll subtract a certain number of promo/review copies first. maybe not. maybe we'll just get Chris to send one of his copies to his buddy Ken Hite. depends on how much central control you want over our promo/review process. personally, I'm fine with us just exploding out into the world and just coordinating our plan of attack with each other.

- you can choose to sell your copies to individuals or game stores, or give them away or stick them in a stack on your FLGS counter for people to pick up as they will. or hand them out to interesting people at GenCon. basically you can do whatever. in the event that you want me to keep some/all of your additional copies, I can do that and then...

- we stick an email address on the official PUSH website (once I get it up) which people can send mail to if they're interested in purchasing a copy for a fixed price. I keep a running list of who still has copies and either mail them out, if I have them, or contact you guys and get you to send them out to the buyer. you keep the money.

- in the event that another company wants to work out printing/distribution for us, we come back and think about it. personally, though, I think it'd be kinda cool if we could stay out of the traditional distribution model (at least, for now) and use our crazy indie guerilla gorilla tactics.

- another thought: so I don't think some of our cover artists, like Clio, are going to want to participate in this gorilla bombardment, so I could just go ahead and pay her out of my pocket and then recieve another 1/Nth of the contributor copies (her portion, basically) to sell and try to make that money back (or just give them away and say fuck the money). this could potentially work for other people who just want money and not copies, but we'd have to talk about it.

Anyway, those are my thoughts of late. Keep writing! But start thinking about how you want to be reimbursed for your sweat and blood!

Just to make it clear: I've never agreed to to any compensation at all. I don't know how Jonathan has negotiated with others, but I'm here just for the kicks and to develop my relationships with the beautiful people. So in that sense I have no stake in anything, do as you feel best. If money is incoming, I'll pay my portion to the Seadog Tuxedo action figure fund (STAFF). Unless it's a friggin' big amount of money (200e+, say), in which case it goes to charity ("Let's keep Eero in bread while he's still struggling to publish" fund, specifically).

However, if Jonathan at some point has excess copies of the journal and wants to give them to me, Arkenstone can take them and sell them, alongside the other stuff we're anyway marketing. If you manage a professional looking journal, I'll get the Finnish gaming stores to sell it, how about that? And then there's the summer conventions, Ropecon should sell a dozen copies at least. So I can take a couple of dozen copies, and get a majority of them sold in Finland, if that's the plan.

So my call is that Jonathan's plan is quite fine. Just wanted to make sure that he doesn't worry overmuch about money. When the value of the writing is in hundreds and thousands of bucks (we're about all professional writers of various disciplines, eh? I know that my hourly rate is 25-30e or so...) it'd be weird to worry overmuch about the relatively small printing expenses :D