Project: A Bandcamp for Zines

So a while back I wrote a post about zines. In that post I talked about how I felt that making a marketplace for zines would be too difficult to monetize. And by monetize I don't mean make me money but generate enough money to pay for its own hosting and upkeep costs. But to have like, some sort of online zine hosting website that was user friendly and auto created a PDF for readers to download. It would be impossible to monetize and therefore fail but the idea is fun to mull around. Maybe just a site for zine creators to index their zine and link to a place to buy or find one. I dunno. There is no way to find all these authors or convince them or potential readers to use it. Then I got a few emails from yall out there in the bearblog world asking "Well, why wouldn't it work?" So I set out to prove everyone wrong by crunching the numbers and finding out how expensive it would be to do this. Because logically the reason fees are high on places like Patreon, Ko-fi, Gumroad, and Etsy are…