Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — xkcd book

via blag.xkcd.com: Sales of the xkcd book continue to be quite strong thanks to glowing reviews (thank you!). And the breadpig recently learned that we'd raised enough from our fundraising book tour to get the xkcd school built! Now we need your help to dedicate it. You see, each school will have a permanent plaque installed with whatever Randall chooses. Leave your suggestions in the comments of his blag entry and we'll report back to you later this week when xkcd chooses the final dedication.

We couldn't have done it without you. We aimed to raise $32,000 for Room To Read to construct The Kengthan Incomplete Primary School in Laos (don't be troubled about the 'incomplete' part, that's just a tricky translation from Lao to describe the education level - it's going to be 100% complete when it's built). It wouldn't be very helpful if we built a school that, for instance, were missing two walls. Our fundraising events in New York and Silicon Valley alone brought in over $30,000 in generous donations from attendees, but we were pushed [well] over the top through book...

Thank you! I'm not sure if this would rank xkcd: volume 0 on the New York Times bestseller list, but we're certainly pleased with your response to the book. Our events in New York, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley were all packed with eager xkcd fans and we hope you had as much fun at them as we did. Photos to come. We're still getting final numbers on how much money we've raised for Room to Read to build our xkcd school is Laos; in the meantime, here's a photo of the first signing Randall ever did for a robot....

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...

It's out! xkcd: volume 0 is available for $18. We came in $1 under our target price. There's also an option to get your copy with an autograph from Randy (ideal if you can't make our initial fundraiser book tour). [Sorry for not making it more clear in this entry, but it was a limited time offer. It was so popular, though, that we're thinking of doing it again near year's end.] And yes, as you may have heard, all of breadpig's profits are going toward Room to Read. Our aim is to have enough money raised by the end...