Number of copies?

[Aly L]

I'm kind of new to the whole zine making thing. I've made two zines of different topics. The first one I made 40 copies of because it was shorter and wanted to give a lot away. The second zine I started I made 15 copies, but ended up having to make more because people wanted to trade/my friends wanted some etc.

So I guess I'm asking

How many copies of your zines do you make?

Do you ever recopy/reprint your zines?

Is there something about recopying/reprinting zines that destroys the originality of the first printing?

(sorry if someone's already discussed this, I couldn't find out if someone did)

[rieka]

I'm new as well but I think 40-50 is a nice number to start off.

have many recopies have you made for your second zine?

[kit feral]

I usually make about 50 for the first run, but I always recopy. I basically reprint until I'm no longer pleased with the zine.

[Isabel Xochitl]

i use my parents' photocopier when they are not looking, so that means i only make a half dozen or so copies at once, but with both issues of my zine, i have printed up more as i ran out and people asked for them. i feel like if i has plenty of cash, i would do it at the copy shop -- and then, ideally, i'd print ten or more. because collating and stapling is easier in bulk, not that collating 5 4-page zines is very hard though :)

[Hannah Rose Dostine]

yeah i'd say 30-50 copies is usually a substantial amount

[Eunice]

My husband copies mine at work. He does around 25-30 copies and I've found that's enough.

[Adrian Fynch]

I usually do copy runs of about 20 copies at a time, but I usually stop around 100 copies in total. I've got a bunch of different zines and I like my older ones to slowly go out of print as I'm making new ones. As well, usually by the time I've made a new copy, I'm kind of sick of the older copies, so I don't like to reprint them unless they were really popular or it's not a perzine or something.

[Royce Icon]

the largest run I've done so far is 50. I've yet to reprint anything, but I put them online somewhere for people to check them out.

[Becky the Evil Flower]

I'm low on cash so I make it based on demand. I like to have at least five on hand. Clearly demand isn't very high :)