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and sometimes 6 oz. postage 30-36cents. This is not much, cents wise but percentagewise it has jumped from 4 to 8% of the sales price. On top of that paper costs, printing costs envelopes, etc. have risen considerably. Do you know anything else selling for the same price today as 10 years ago? On top of that to improve the general overall appearance of the magazine the last several issues have been done by a special IBM computer-typesetter arrangement at a cost of $2.50 a page to set up. All of this has markedly cut into the nominal profit. When work got too much for me I had to get help and help has to be paid and on top of that there are the state and federal workmans compensation insurance, payroll taxes, etc. Everything else that has to be bought for Chevalier has had to go up to. So-0-0-0-0? So starting with this issue there are only 84 pages to cut down on postage, printing, and composition charges we will only run the price lists every other issue (the odd numbered ones) so that there will be more reading space. This will be much more feasible than trying to raise the price. I realize that $4 is pretty steep as it is but I can only point out to you that it doesn't pay for just the printing cost of the magazine but for all the other various activities and duties that I indicated above. I can assure you that neither you nor I would work at the per hour rate that would result from dividing the gross profit of Chevalier Pubs. by the hours spent in its activities. But then as I said in the beginning, this project was initiated out of love and concern for fellow TV's, not as a money making proposition and that is the way it remains.

I am somewhat sorry to have taken all this space laying out this problem or spilling my guts if thats the way you'd like to look at it. But its something of a catharsis or blood letting for me because this frustration, desperation and irritation has been building up in me for the past year and I feel better for sharing it with you. I know how much the magazine, the stories, the TV and Wife, the merchandise etc., mean to you out there. I was where you are too you know 25 years of aloneness so I understand. I don't want to be selfish and just blow the whole scene, to use a nice hippy expression, but I do feel that my lifes needs and demands at this point are deserving of consideration too and I'm trying to let you see how it looks from here and ask your understanding and cooperation.

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