There are some costs, they are minimal for the most part.

ISBNs are required, I think 10 cost about €250 - €500 and one is needed for each edition of the books release.

Also, an editor would be needed to check over all the stories, and a cover art designer would be needed.

There are some other associated costs involved even with self publishing. I wouldn't have the money to do it by myself, especially if it is supposed to be a combined effort for the benefit of Hive.

It would probably be about €1000 - €2000 to do it, which could potentially be paid by the authors of the book by dividing the cost.

The problem I faced back when I was trying to get this done, was gaining attention from people and gathering up authors who were interested in teaming up. But, it's still a good idea and could still happen.

In fact, I might put the word out again, and see if we can do it. I have a few people I could ask now, who I think would be interested