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[Porthos]

I'm a little dubious about the $200,000 for shipping though. There are presently just over 7000 backers, that would mean nearly $30 postage to each and every backer, which seems unlikely.

(So hopefully that number is on the high side and there's more left over for Rich, is what I'm saying...)

I theenk eet was joke.

Not a joke, apparently.

From the comments to Update #15

Rich Burlew about 1 hour ago
@Everyone talking about average shipping rates: Shipping a box with three or more books in it costs $49 to any country outside of North America, $37 more than it costs to ship within the USA ($12). Right now, about half of all orders are coming from other countries. So yes, an average of, say, $28 a customer sounds like just about exactly like what it will cost. Keep in mind that these costs were entirely expected and even built into the pledge structure; if I had cheaper shipping options that I trusted, I would have charged customers less and then I would have raised less. So no money is really coming out of my pocket. I use the USPS Priority Mail because it allows me to track packages; long-time fans will remember the day I announced that the bulk shipper I tried using for the very first book lost a few hundred international orders into thin air. I'll never use a service like that again.

Bolded for emphasis.

Considering the tremendous bargain people internationally are getting if they end up ordering the whole set (or indeed anything that normally would incure tremendous shipping fees on multiple shipments) I'm not that surprised when I stop to think about it.