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

With over 25,000 copies of xkcd: volume 0 sold so far, breadpig is thrilled to announce that the xkcd school is complete! Thanks to all of you who helped get us here.

We received these photos from Bookshop Santa Cruz, an independent bookseller (rocking since 1966!) that's been featuring the breadpig-published xkcd: volume 0 for the last couple of months.

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...

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;...

Steve and I had the privilege of giving a keynote at last year's PyCon. Watch the video [steal slides here] for Steve's gripping account of the switch from Lisp to Python, see him artfully respond to questions about why reddit's search is so unsatisfying, and hear me get asked if I'll sponsor PyCon the following year (it's near the end of Q&A, when the audience decides to give Steve a respite). I said yes, albeit while put on the spot, but it was a "yes" nonetheless. I aspire to be a man of my word, so if you're attending PyCon...