1. Topic: Yearbook
2. Based on the budget of the yearbook, it's hard to create a book that has features that students want, while keeping it at a a price that they are willing to pay.
"Divide your total expenses by the number of books you plan to order to determine the 'real' cost of each book.
Example:
Total expenses - $35,600
Total books - 800
'Real' cost per copy - $44.50
Can you sell 800 copies at $45 each? If the price is too high, people might not buy the book. If the price it too low, you need to consider how you will make up the additional money you need to meet your expenses." ("Yearbook is a Business." You Better Know: Editor's Handbook. N.p.: Herff Jones, 2012. 66. Print.)
3. If a school orders at least 500 copies and has over 200 pages, the school will generally have more money to spend on their yearbook.
4. In the back of each yearbook, there is a spread (or in our case, a page) called the colophon. It lists the editors, what fonts were used, and also generally includes the amount of books ordered, and the overall cost of the whole production. As we share books with other schools when we meet with them at workshops, the yearbook classroom contains many books from a lot of different schools. I can pick a bunch from our collection, from all sorts of different areas, and put all of the numbers on a chart, and compare each school with another to see if my hypothesis is indeed correct.
5. Social Science
