okay guys, so after much serious discussion and a lot of deliberation, we unfortunately have some bad(ish) news to announce: the price of the chapbook is going up to $12 (orders in the US) and $15 (international orders).
we feel pretty embarrassed and rather terrible about this, and we're not really sure what the protocol is regarding unpaid pre-orders, so here's the deal: if you pre-ordered in good faith that the price would remain at the initally advertised price of $9/12, then we'll accept that as payment (especially given the current economy), and you'll still be in line for a copy. but if you can afford to, and you think it's worth it, then you can pay the new and increased price.
basically, the initial price was me going "hmmm 9 bucks sounds okay, doesn't it? yeah, okay let's tell everyone that's the price". which was actually pretty stupid. it didn't occur to me to work out a real price based on materials and labour. and if we were pricing it based on true costs of labour it would be about $50 p/copy, so i guess that's something.
but anyway, a lesson has been learned, so don't judge us too harshly. we've spent the last few weeks agonising over whether we should hike the price, worried that would be just too unclassy. luckily i'm from new zealand and therefore lacking in class altogether.
