A newspaper made for one night — the room, the date, the set, the writing. Every spread opens into a wall poster with real text on the back. Yours is a voice that has always arrived with a scene attached — Olympia, Vexx, CC Dust, CCFX, then Stage of Love — and newsprint is the format built to carry that: lyrics at poster scale, the history in the writing on the back. Run capped and numbered; when it sells out it is gone forever.
Straight, because the numbers below are small and we would rather you saw why. 4 September is a Night School label night at EartH — you are one of several names on the bill, not the headline. So we do not model the room; we model the share of the room that is there for you. Every figure on this page runs off that one number, and it is the first thing you should change if we have it wrong.
Wide Open pays for everything — design, print, shipping. Costs recoup off the top, then the net splits 60/40 in the artist's favor. You write no checks and carry zero risk. ~$800 limited edition + ~$1,300 open edition. On one night at this size this is the structure we would honestly recommend — the downside is entirely ours.
You cover production at cost — ~$1,600 upfront across both editions (print ~$630 + our design & production fee, $500 flat per edition) — and keep everything else. Baseline is a 60-copy limited at $30 plus a 150-copy open edition at $20. It edges out Structure 1 at these settings, but it is you carrying the risk on a night you are not headlining — worth saying out loud.
Every number is a lever — drag them and the night recalculates. EartH Theatre holds 680; we model 35% of that as your share of a shared bill, which is 238 people. Tell us that is wrong and the whole page moves.
EartH runs two rooms — the 680-cap Theatre and the 1,200-cap Hall. We have modelled the Theatre; if Night School has taken the Hall, every number here goes up.
Methodology per our standard model: hall fee on venue sales · 5% shrinkage & CC on venue gross · print costed on volume tiers · excludes sales tax.
The second paper: not numbered, not capped to the room, lower ticket. It goes out at the show and then keeps selling through our store at newspapers.wide-open.xyz until we close it — which is why its run is bigger than the limited, and why it is the larger of the two numbers here. Still never reprinted.
The open edition is the volume play: it prices lower and outlives the night. The limited is the scarcity play. Most runs carry both — the limited sells out early at the table, the open keeps selling after it is gone.
The artist newspaper has half a century of collector history — priced like art, not merch.