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Did you hear? The xkcd book puzzle was finally solved! (no spoilers)

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But if you want spoilers, we've got the link to the xkcd forum thread!

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ThinkGeek now carrying xkcd: volume 0

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It's a little known fact that monkeys and breadpigs are naturally quite amicable with one another. Less known is that monkeys can be found riding breadpigs during their lunchbreaks as a means of sport, similar to that one Harry Potter plays with brooms. One result of this is the success of LOLmagnetz on ThinkGeek (who've been proudly carrying them for a couple years now). Most recently, we've had the pleasure of seeing a new addition to the ThinkGeek arsenal -- xkcd: volume 0. We're thrilled to see xkcd on their virtual shelves and urge you all to earn some geek...

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The xkcd school in Laos is complete! Rejoice!

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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.

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Featured Breadpig Bookseller: Bookshop Santa Cruz Loves xkcd

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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.

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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...

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