Kickstarter Campaign For Comic Book That Aims To Reward Retailers As Well As Backers
from the interesting-ideas dept
It's always neat to see whatever creative ideas people come up with to make their various crowdfunding projects more interesting. Writer Alex Wilson recently alerted us to his own Kickstarter campaign for printing The Time of Reflection, a short comic he wrote, which recently won "the Eagle Award" at the London Comic-Con, as part of a challenge sponsored by Universal Pictures (as part of a promotional campaign for Snow White and the Huntsman). I'm a bit surprised that Universal didn't require them to then hand over any copyright on the comic (you see that happens sometimes with these kinds of contests), but it looks like Alex and Silvio (who did the drawings) are free to do what they want with the comic. So they're doing this Kickstarter campaign to do printed copies of the comic.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Really, it seems like Kickstarter is a good indication of how risk adverse people are.
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Most living beings are somewhat risk averse. It keeps you alive.
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Scraping up a couple hundred bucks and getting a books printed is great, but this way they are getting the printing, pre-selling a large amount And getting some distribution to markets that may not be well served by the large players.
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It seems to go pretty contrary to what Kickstarter is suppose to be about. I mean, come on... $450. Take the damn risk yourself.
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For some people, $500 is too much to risk losing. That doesn't mean those people don't have anything to contribute though.
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R, $500 may be too much risk for some, but without risk, why reward?
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Actually read the "not a store" blog post of Kickstarter. They clearly mean it's not an online catalog where you point at a picture and buy stuff and wait for it to be delivered. They want to make it clear that you're financing something.
Everyone just takes the "not a store" as some sort of catchphrase and say "but but you're not supposed to give money to Kickstarter in exchange of stuff!" or something silly like that.
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Or... not.
Hey, check it out, two different options.
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I'm tempted to say because what they wanted was so low is why people avoided it. Campaigns with high goals seem to generate more income.
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