It’s been a while since I’ve done a transparency segment so I thought I would give some details as to the business side of SCP (there’s not much to report).
According to our May Sales Report a feature of WordPress, we totaled $7 dollars in book sales. 1
During our Annual Contest we raised a total of $120 from entry fees to both contests. We pay a total of $150 to the contest winners.
Today, July 9, 2025 I received a payment from Atlas Collective for in-store purchases of our books. I’m not sure how many books sold, but the total payment was $28.20
Last month we tabled at an event hosted by the Midwest Writing Center. We did sell a few books at the event, but it was a great chance to meet with some local writers and artists who are around doing the same thing.
It has become a pattern, when thinking about book sales, to say that we are so micro it doesn’t matter, what matters is that the writing gets into the people’s hands that want to read it. Then, over the course of days, weeks, months, it turns into a fixation. The “sales don’t matter” dialogue is driven by a feeling of ineptitude coupled with the fact that sales mean attention and interest. Sales and capitol make the production possible, in large part, but it is also correlated to success and mattering. It always feels necessary to take a step back and remind myself that sales do not determine success. Building a relationship with the author/ artist during the publishing process is a marker of success. Building a relationship with the work, a closer relationship that is more akin to your own writing in some ways. Success is also marked by the achievement of goals and making material/ artwork that starts as a concept, an idea, and turns into something physical. Often when doing the work and looking at a cover design or finished book and knowing it’s complete and satisfactory is the impression that drives me to pick up the next project. These are the types of achievements I aim for, even when the markers of capitalism try to creep in.
-daniel j flosi
July, 12 2025
1June’s sales report isn’t available yet.
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