I've been saying this a lot on Quaker websites where I advertise my new book (below post), Ten Quaker Closet Plays. I thought I'd explain what this really means.
The zoom fee for Cloud Quakers is ~$16/mo. I could do our zoom on my daughter's university account or some such runaround, but I chose to have my own account so I could make it available to any Quaker for any Quaker event, as well as my family if they should so need it, which they haven't so far. In any case this book and the other book (Quaker Plays for First Days), which is sold under the same stipulation, doesn't really come close to covering this zoom fee. I will be lucky to get that much this month and this will probably be the biggest month.
There is always, however, the possibility that some large Quaker gathering will choose to buy about ten of them at one time, or, everyone will get online and download ten or even twenty of them. Right now you get about 1/3 of a penny for every page read, which means that if 20 people downloaded and read the book I'd get about $8, but if 12 people bought the book I'd get another $8. Either way I'd be lucky to ever get to $16 in a month.
What you are seeing is that we are not talking about a huge economy here. How many Quakers are there? How many of them just buy a book of plays when it comes out? So far, just me and maybe a friend or two. Some people know the first book, which was explicitly aimed at First-Day, and some of the plays in it were pretty good. That book is getting a makeover. If there is only one Quaker playwright in any given generation, that one has to be as good as possible. And that's what I intend. It's not a bad book.
By the way, if more than forty buy it, then Quaker Volunteer Service comes into the picture.
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