Use the technology

1 of 2 posts in 1972

We used a big rubber stamp and a pad of red ink to print the logo by hand on each copy of 3-​Cent Pulp, and even­tu­ally employed an machine that used silk-​screen sten­cils (prepared on a type­writer and then stacked in a hopper) to address copies of the maga­zine to subscribers. By 1980, we had published 107 issues and had been banned twice from the Vancou­ver Public Library and we were two and half years behind in the publish­ing schedule.


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Do the math

2 of 2 posts in 1972

By our own calcu­la­tions we had in the course of seven years spent $65,000 in the Marble Arch beer parlour, the equiv­a­lent of 130,000 glasses of beer. We had printed a total of 117,000 copies of the maga­zine, half a million pages of liter­ary writ­ing, we had perfected the finan­cial manage­ment tech­nique that we named 100% Loss Financ­ing. And we had launched the 3-​Day Novel Contest, which is still thriv­ing today, in its pages.

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