Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — books
Reasons to self-publish, or start your own niche publishing company (or not)
Posted by Alexis Ohanian on
Like any good uncorporation, breadpig aims to do things a bit differently. Last year, we published a tutorial for how LOLMagnetz generated $30,000 in profits (for charity, but profits nonetheless). We donated $15,000 to the SF/SPCA that December of '08 and the rest went back into Breadpig, Inc. to purchase more inventory and fund our next project, the xkcd book, xkcd: volume 0. Thanks to many of you who are reading this, the xkcd book has been (and continues to be) a great success! From the 3-stop book tour alone, we raised enough to build "the xkcd school" in Laos;...
Borderlands Books: First Bookstore in the World Stocked with xkcd: volume 0
Posted by admin on
When the book was first announced in the New York Times, the very first bookstore to email us to stock xkcd: volume 0 was Borderlands Books, a San Francisco geek institution. Not only were we thrilled to have our book on their shelves, we could hand-deliver the first batch -- they're only a few blocks away from breadpig HQ. The cats were feeling frisky when we dropped off their shipment and it seemed fit to mark the occasion with a few snapshots. If you're ever in the Mission neighborhood of SF, there's no shortage of independent bookstores, but there's only...