Hyouka - Volume 03 - The Kudryavka Sequence - Welcome to KANYA FESTA! (1)

required to stay with the Manga Club for some time.
"Then, shall we begin?"
Satoshi and I nodded. Looking at us one by one, Chitanda slowly spoke.
"There's not much time until the Opening Ceremony starts... So does anyone
have any ideas on how we could sell this many copies of 'Hyouka?'"
The price of "Hyouka" was set at 200 yen.
This was the price decided by Ibara and Chitanda after much calculation. We
originally wanted to sell 30 copies at 400 yen each. As we were expecting to
sell them all, the proceeds made along with our own club funding would be
just enough to cover the printing costs.
But now we have 200 copies of "Hyouka". It's not exactly an extremely tragic
mistake, and the printing of excessive copies also meant we actually paid far
less for each volume as a result. If we were to sell all 200 volumes, then we
could lower the price down to 120 yen per copy and still break even.
But it was impractical to expect all of them to be sold, so taking that into
consideration, we settled for 200 yen apiece, though we would need to sell
120 copies in order to break even. Chitanda eventually decided on this price,
though selling 120 copies still seems rather optimistic... Still, as I kept quiet, I
wasn't planning on complaining afterwards anyway. Surely 200 yen is pretty
cheap for an anthology sold at a Cultural Festival, after all.
By the way, even if we were to sell them all, we would not be able to profit
from it anyway. As the Kamiyama High School Cultural Festival expressly
forbids clubs from profiteering. While I've heard of stories where people
would occasionally get away with pocketing 1000 yen for themselves, any
amount more than that would end up in the national treasury, sorry, I mean
the school treasury.