No,
not at all. We can't stress this enough; between stock for CDs, cases,
the ink costs for printing the inserts and labels, labour of cutting
the inserts to size, inserting into the CD, packaging into bubble envelopes
and then running the CDs to the post office, and add to that, Paypal
fees and the percentage we give back to the original societies and organizations
who first sponsored the recordings, there is no profit. Remember - these
are one-offs - each duplicated and prepared one-at-a-time and not mass
produced. The CDs are only offered as a convenience; a way
to back up this golden era of Doukhobor recordings so they won't be
lost - and for those that don't want to play MP3s, they'll have the
convenience of playing it in their car stereo, home stereo, or wherever
- without turning on a computer. |