If $1.98 refers to what you think I earned my first year as a lawyer, then you're sadly mistaken. You would be way too high in your estimate of my value.
If you're asking the wholesale price per copy, your inquiry is irrelevant since you're down for free (but not really free given the huge amount of time you spent/wasted helping with the book).
Retail is suggested at $35.00. Wholesale around $22.00. The book is 408 pages, the last two of which are blank space. 70 pound "matte" paper, a term of art which means really, really good paper (sorry, it isn't soft enough to use as emergency TP). 14 point Kivar cover. Optional for an extra 89 cents, a black Sharpie pen and a bandana. The Sharpie to make your own corrections of my many screw ups (choose your own, each person will pick differently). The bandana to put in your mouth so I don't have to hear your complaints about how you would have done it better.
- 4,200 copies (plus or minus), shipped directly to my house, printed on extremely high quality paper with quite robust cover stock, including rounded corners, just over $30,000.
- Having a life again with no self imposed anchor of research, writing, drawing. cleaning and editing: priceless.
