The patron's ledger
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Double Dutch is a one-desk press. No investors, no placements for sale: just a clerk, a corpus of overlooked books, and readers who keep the lights on.
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The pamphlet $5 A coffee for the clerk. Keeps one week of searches running. Enter the ledger ⇢ The paperback $15 Roughly one overlooked book at cover price, aimed at the press instead. Enter the ledger ⇢ The patron shelf $40 Funds a month of the reading room: hosting, corpus upkeep, clerk costs. Enter the ledger ⇢ The benefactor $100 Underwrites author payments and the next title on the Double Dutch list. Enter the ledger ⇢
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Where an entry goes
01 The clerk API and compute costs behind The Underread's read-alike pulls.
02 The corpus Sourcing, verifying, and cataloguing the ledger of overlooked books.
03 The authors Advances and royalties for the Double Dutch list, six titles and counting.
04 The room Hosting, the site itself, and keeping The Underread free for every reader.