Nervous Horse Literary Magazine

 

yes. yes it is.

 

And sex.

...self-publishing (or vanity publishing as it is also known) using print-on-demand publishing isn't expensive. The minimum spend is 1 proof-copy of the book you have produced, so assuming that is error-free there are no further costs to yourself. Any further copies are printed on demand and all costs of that are covered by the purchase price the customer pays ... much like the fabulous Nervous Horse t-shirt I imagine.

...a printed and bound souvenir/collectors edition of a selection of Nervous Horse pages sounds like a terrific idea to me.

Very good.

The paperbacks I have had made by createspace.com are stitched and glued to "trade paperback" quality. If your page-count isn't divisible by 4 then blank-pages are added to the end to ensure that the stitching can be done correctly. 

Well  - that really depends on how many pages it would take to publish everything without having to edit the content. And that is determined by how many pages each article requires.

If we presume that most submitted articles need one or two print pages and every edition has 30 articles then that's 60 pages per edition. So to include everything from the first 8 editions would require a between 350 to 480 pages - all 9 editions would be 540 pages and the price difference between 480 and 540 isn't that much.

(I've excluded my Mundane Adventures series here as its word-count already exceeds that of a novella and I expect it to run to around 100 pages by the time it's finished - my only interest in seeing them in print is so they are de-serialised and self-contained therefore sacrificing their inclusion in an anthology is an easy choice to make. Also any personal vanity of seeing my work published in a hard-copy edition of Nervous Horse is covered by other pieces I've submitted... ).

Depending on which print-on-demand service you use a paperback of 500 black and white pages with full colour cover costs around $9 to make and retails for $14 (assuming zero-profit for the author). I can't speak for every one but I'll happily pay $14 for such a unique book.

Obviously if you want it to be cheaper then you'll have to reduce the number of submissions included, or publish it in two or more volumes so people could buy as many volumes as their budget can afford.