International Library of Poetry
Anthology Publishing Record
and Estimated Annual Income

1997-- 44 anthologies were made and published.
1998-- 78 anthologies were published.
1999-- 52 anthologies were published. (one per week!)
2000-- about 50 or more . . . (I'm tired of counting.)

You can easily verify these numbers. They are from the ILP website. Go to poetry.com and click on "Anthologies" where you'll find a list of names of every book, and its release date.

Calculation of anthology income
-- an amazing estimate --
50 books/yr x 600 pages
x 6 poets(or poems)/page x $50/book =
about $9 million each year

Or, let's do an alternate calculation--
The Greater Maryland Better Business Bureau reports
that the ILP has 500,000 customers each year.
If only half purchase a single $50 book,
that's $12.5 million each year.
Can that be possible?

If the International Library of Poetry takes in approximately ten million dollars in a year they can certainly afford to give out their advertised $58,000 in prize money -- that's about $6 prize money for every $1000 income.   Somebody is making some serious profit at this rate-- but it's certainly not the poets who are the ILP's unwitting customers.