Editing Plan Nine Publishing (section)

==History==
Plan Nine Publishing was named after the [[Ed Wood]] film ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]''. The publisher was owned by David Allen, who worked publishing alongside his day job as a [[systems engineer]] at Financial Computing in [[Winston-Salem]]. Plan nine was started in 1996, and in January 2000 Allen left his day job to concentrate full-time on the publishing business.<ref name="tbj-man-with-plan"/>

98% of Plan Nine's products were sold direct to customers through their website. With low [[print run]]s (typically less than 2000), the company were able to run with a profit with runs as low as 300. The low running costs meant that the company was able to have a 70% [[gross profit margin]], and was able to give its artists a 20% [[royalties|royalty]], more than 4 times the industrial average.<ref name="tbj-man-with-plan"/>

In April 2008, the Plan Nine main page was replaced by a message stating: ''Plan Nine has gone on hiatus for re-tooling and transition to new owners.  Please check back with us Sept 1st, 2008. Thanks for your support!''  That page remained until the site finally went offline in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.plan9publishing.com |title=Plan9Publishing |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine}}{{cbignore}}</ref>