| How much money you will have to spend depends on the types of printing and binding you want to do and how much of the work you are willing to do yourself. If you use black in on inexpensive paper, remain within the page size and margins specified by your printer, and do the binding yourself with a stapler, you'll keep the cost to a minimum. Everything else adds to the cost: color illustrations, illustrations that go to the edge of the page, glued (perfect) binding, odd sized pages, every color added to the cover, etc. If you do a 32-page simple chapbook-style magazine, you can probably do it for under a dollar a copy. If you do a university-type full color, 128 page literary magazine, for 500 copies, you may be paying $7-$10 a copy. For a fancy magazine like that you will need to publish thousands of copies to get a reasonable per copy price. |
