Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — featured
Pause. Take a deep breath.
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Did you hear? The xkcd book puzzle was finally solved! (no spoilers)
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The xkcd school in Laos is complete! Rejoice!
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Step by step guide on how to publish a book
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Hopefully you've read part one about how breadpig made $53,000 in 3 months and thus come to the conclusion that you're interested in learning how a professional-grade book gets made. Also consider reading/sharing our tutorial on how we made LOLmagnetz (a tidy profit, too). And if you're planning on using this information to build a competing geeky book publisher (or magnet maker) to rival breadpig, more power to you! 1. Produce book content This is obviously a lot easier when, say, you're just assembling previously released comics, but a lot of thought goes into the flow of...
Reasons to self-publish, or start your own niche publishing company (or not)
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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;...