Founded in 2013, Rosarium Publishing is a publisher of speculative fiction, comics, and crime fiction – all with a multicultural flair, and like all publishers right now, are trying to figure out the impact of President Trump’s tariffs on their business. Rosarium has published a rather interesting breakdown and some facts about the actual impact which would happen even if they shifted their entire publishing operation to the United States.

Here’s the highlights and you can read their entire post here:

• They print their prose books in the US and graphic novels in Canada
• US printers rely on Canada for their paper, printing plates, carboard cartons, plastic lids, and more, which means even with a US printer publishers are still impacted by the tariffs
• That 70% of the retail price goes to someone else. The remaining 30% pays for printing, marketing, and miscellaneous costs
• Price hikes will have to come with the tariffs. Rosarium mentions 25-50% increases
• Increased prices will result in decreased sales which will force many small publishers to close
• Crowdfunding could insulate publishers from risks and increase costs
• Recent crowdfunding campaigns that ended before the tariffs but yet to deliver will be impacted negatively