Really good article about OotS and the Kickstarter drive over at Tor.com:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/kic...r-of-the-stick
(h/t John F. MacMichael from the comments section of the latest update)
Nice way to end it, I think:
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Cory Doctorow cautions, over at Boing Boing, that this isn’t some sort of herald of the end of business models as we know it. The success of self-publishing superstars like Rich Burlew is more equivalent to winning the lottery or becoming a rockstar. A fair enough point, but the difference, I would argue, is that this isn’t random chance, or studio-driven. If this is gambling, it is poker, not the lotto. There are elements of luck and marketing at play, but there is also something else. There is the — pardon me if I get a little sappy — the interplay between a creator and his audience at work. The play, as a crazy Danish guy once said, is the thing. The Order of the Stick made a million dollars, and that is pretty cool. Rich Burlew had more than his 1000 true fans, and when the time came to cash in his chips, they came through.
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As seen in the quoted paragraph above, there was another look at the drive from Boing Boing:
http://boingboing.net/2012/03/13/int...of-the-st.html
Mostly it's a recap of the interview with Singularity Hub, but Corey also chimes in with some thoughts of the whole thing.