The OOTS Reprint Drive at Kickstarter: Pledge now to get exclusive rewards!

[TinyMushroom]

Is there a way to select multiple rewards? (For the combined pledge amount, of course.)

I think you should just pledge twice (or thrice or something-ice).

[homeslice]

I demand that one of the mystery rewards be a video of Rich impersonating Dr. Evil and laughing evilly.

[Weimann]

$11,866 in the 1 hour since the million.

[Procyonpi]

...There isn't enough money in the world. That's enough to pay off all the debt of every man, woman, child, and government, and still have enough left over to turn the moon into your own private money-filled swimming pool of money.

lrn2binary

[Gez]

Is there a way to select multiple rewards? (For the combined pledge amount, of course.)

Make multiple accounts and pledge with each one.

[dakameleon]

Ok, let's say everything beyond $850k is "surplus to needs" and goes into the GiantITP/OotS general fund.

That means we're currently at around $160,000 of OotS Goodies coming down the track.

New computer? check. New version of Illustrator? check.

New Cintaq? CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?


So happy for Rich! Hope this doesn't lead to a breakdown or something!

[MoonCat]

Hooray, fellow Chinookian! *hugs*

Our state is nicknamed after SALMON?

[Shonen Hero]

Our state is nicknamed after SALMON?

Nicknamed, but yes. :P

[0datdude0]

Man WTF is he going to do with that cash? I mean I know theirs 1.) kickstarts slice of it and 2.) taxs but thats still a huge chunk of change!

Christ the angry video game nerds making a movie for less.

[Chess435]

Our state is nicknamed after SALMON?

*joins group hug*

[Diadem]

I finally decided to join this kickstarter...

And then it turns out you need a credit card! No other payment methods available. No bank payment, no ideal, no paypal, nothing. {Scrubbed}

[honigmuffin]

New Cintaq? CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?

HELL YEAH!

Guys, as exciting as this is, I should probably go to sleep. Unless I want to wake up once again on my desk, this time most likely with a spiral binding-shaped impression on my face. Huh, on second thought…

See you in a few hours and I'm really curious about the Mystery Prize(s). Well, breakfast time is update time for me; I can't think of a better way to start the new week

[Chess435]

I finally decided to join this kickstarter...

And then it turns out you need a credit card! No other payment methods available. No bank payment, no ideal, no paypal, nothing. {Scrub the post, scrub the quote}

The books are only available in dead tree format.

[MoonCat]

Nicknamed, but yes. :P

Dang it. WHY?

Man WTF is he going to do with that cash? I mean I know theirs 1.) kickstarts slice of it and 2.) taxs but thats still a huge chunk of change!

Christ the angry video game nerds making a movie for less.

Don't forget the cut Amazon takes. And then the sales taxes for orders from PA and TX. And the cost of making all of the rewards. and the shipping costs. And the money going to reprinting in the first place!

And after all that, whatever is left goes to making OoTS better. Better technology, that kind of thing.

[Goosefeather]

I finally decided to join this kickstarter...

And then it turns out you need a credit card! No other payment methods available. No bank payment, no ideal, no paypal, nothing. {Scrub the post, scrub the quote}

We have credit cards in Europe as well... And debit cards work just fine.

[TinyMushroom]

I finally decided to join this kickstarter...

And then it turns out you need a credit card! No other payment methods available. No bank payment, no ideal, no paypal, nothing. {Scrub the post, scrub the quote}

There are no downloads. I'm sure someone will put the pdf's up for download sooner or later, but I don't believe someone would actually have the patience to scan each and every page of those books.

[Shonen Hero]

Dang it. WHY?



Don't forget the cut Amazon takes. And then the sales taxes for orders from PA and TX. And the cost of making all of the rewards. and the shipping costs. And the money going to reprinting in the first place!

And after all that, whatever is left goes to making OoTS better. Better technology, that kind of thing.

A huge part of the original million is going to all that, however. I think we're good. :P

EDIT @ Chess: The more Chinookians, the better! :D

[Gez]

Speaking as a non-American, I have no problem using my debit card.

It's not a limitation from Rich, it's a limitation from the Internet. For some weird reason, you can't exchange cold hard cash on the web. You can try putting in some bills in your disc drive, it won't get sent through the wires.

[Diadem]

The books are only available in dead tree format.

I was referring to all those bonus stories you get for pledging.

I'm not a big fan of piracy. But {Scrubbed}

[Kobold-Bard]

I was referring to all those bonus stories you get for pledging.

I'm not a big fan of piracy. But {Scrub the post, scrub the quote}

You can use a debit card, same as normal with Amazon.

[Weimann]

I finally decided to join this kickstarter...

And then it turns out you need a credit card! No other payment methods available. No bank payment, no ideal, no paypal, nothing. *also more stuff that was scrubbed.*

Disregarding the fact that it's hardly within Rich's mandate to change Kickstarter's practices, I'm curious behind the reasoning that being non-American somehow excluded you from having a credit card? Also, it's not actually so that you can only pay with credit cards; normal debit cards (is that the word in English?) where it just gets taken straight from your bank account works as well, or at least it does for me (living in Sweden).

Stuff that was scrubbed.

The whole point of the drive it to reprint the books so they'll be in more stores, yes. However, they can still be ordered online from the web store.

[Grimly Feendish]

I finally decided to join this kickstarter...

And then it turns out you need a credit card! No other payment methods available. No bank payment, no ideal, no paypal, nothing. {Scrubbed}

Amazon is is international - just like paypal

[MoonCat]

A huge part of the original million is going to all that, however. I think we're good. :P

Well yes, but the more pledges there are, the more shipping costs are, and the cut taken by Amazon and Kickstarter will grow. I'm not saying we're in trouble, I'm just saying that when people see it as all going to him after the goals aren't quite correct.

[sciencemile]

Dang it. WHY?

I think it has something to do with our Public School's fishery program or w/e it was called; I just remember every school kept an aquarium full of salmon eggs and then released them into the wild when they grew old enough.

Made me wonder if when they decided to go "back to the spawning pools", we were going to have a bunch of fish flopping across the halls.

[Dragon Star]

There are no downloads. I'm sure someone will put the pdf's up for download sooner or later, but I don't believe someone would actually have the patience to scan each and every page of those books.

Actually, I might, for my personal use only of course. I spend a lot of time on the bus, and it would be nice to have an OOTS pdf on my iphone to help make it more tolerable.

I wouldn't upload it anywhere though. In fact i doubt anyone will. not because it's really that difficult (you only really need to scan the bonus pages) but because most readers of oots have a strong enough loyalty to rich that they wouldn't want to take money from him.

[Flame of Anor]

Rather not say where from. To the US, Washington.

That's cool. I have several steampunk-type friends in the Seattle area; I wonder if you know any of them?

[0datdude0]

hows amazon involved that they get a cut?

[Porthos]

Ok, let's say everything beyond $850k is "surplus to needs" and goes into the GiantITP/OotS general fund.

That means we're currently at around $160,000 of OotS Goodies coming down the track.

New computer? check. New version of Illustrator? check.

New Cintaq? CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?


So happy for Rich! Hope this doesn't lead to a breakdown or something!

Just a couple of points:

A) All that sales tax that was just pledged from PA and TX? Rich doesn't get to keep that.

B) Rich might (and actually almost certainly will) be forced to keep upping the print runs of the books.

So it's not as if everything past $XXX,XXX is pure extra. A decent chunk of it? Sure. But not all of it.

[FatJose]

Oh no...The money is really going to go into making acid-born laser headed sharks a reality, isn't it?

[Roland St. Jude]

Actually, I might, for my personal use only of course. I spend a lot of time on the bus, and it would be nice to have an OOTS pdf on my iphone to help make it more tolerable.

I wouldn't upload it anywhere though. In fact i doubt anyone will. not because it's really that difficult (you only really need to scan the bonus pages) but because most readers of oots have a strong enough loyalty to rich that they wouldn't want to take money from him.

I would hope so.

Sheriff: I'd also hope we could stop talking about copyright infringement, particularly of Rich's work. Thanks.