Hey so it's been a moment right? I've been reaching out to quite a few more book companies, same loop as last time, I either get ghosted or have to politely decline absurd prices. So the lowest I've managed to find someone willing to scan my books for is about $465, which isn't too bad, and it's leagues better than the $5,000 price I was given my another archival company.
So I'm sure no one is asking, but I'll give it anyways, here's all the prices I've been hit with! (In $USD)
$3,000, $5,000 by one company stating that their order minimum was that absurdly high, $600 (leagues more affordable than a lot of the others), and again, $465 which is the best offer I've been given so far.
So this cuts me down just a little over $100 from the previous best price I was given, does that mean it'll be archived soon? Unfortunately not since my job currently pays me in pocket lint, and I have to save up for college and college supplies regardless. Before anyone brings up my Youtooz post, I had specifically set aside those funds since the September leak so that doesn't count B)
I've also tried reaching out to friends and friends of friends to see if anyone I may be very loosely connected to has a book scanner and would be willing to get it archived. I have a sneaking suspicion that book scanning is only supposed to be this expensive for large scale projects, but for some reason I must be looking in the wrong places.
So this whole journey has been a bit of a nightmare for me! I'm not giving up on releasing this book (yet) despite the fact it's been a month now of scrambling to get this out there to no avail. Maybe a few more book scanning and document archival firms later, we'll finally see a light at the end of this miserably long tunnel. And for now enjoy this photo of my kitten that I accidentally sent one of the firms when they asked for photos of the book:
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