An accounting problem: How do I allocate a lifetime subscription? There's a very interesting
Kickstarter oferring a lifetime subscription for their ebook reissues of not-previously-digitised old SF/Fantasy books. They have been going a couple of years, and have 26 SF/Fantasy books in their current catalogue, which is also included in the lifetime subscription. They plan to do about 12 books a year.
For fixed-length subscriptions (e.g. the Lightspeed Magazine Kickstarter), I allocated according to the number of issues. But the lifetime subscription is compleyely open ended. So long as I'm around and they're around I'll be getting rought one new book per month.
And there's also the question of whther I can afford the subscription in my budget.
Hmmm.... I think I'd better pass. I could always buy a lifetime subscription later for $125 instead of $100.
How about if I count it as a five year subscription? That would be for 60 future issues and 26 existing issues, a total of 86. Then I'd only need to count $30 in this month's budget....
Except I don't think I have even that much left. Although I do now realise that I've not done my accounting for this year's Lightspeed Magazine kickstarter properly....
I suspect I'll pass, but I will go and re-do this month's accounts properly.