Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
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Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#2Paper books, ftw!
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#3They should make the "title text" obscured by a flap of paper that automatically lifts when your finger hovers over it.
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#4They should make the "title text" obscured by a flap of paper that automatically lifts when your finger hovers over it.
We had some interesting discussions about how to best do it - jedberg@reddit had one of the cooler ones that involved building your own decoder to pass over the obscured text. In the end, Randy suggested a discrete Copyright-esque position and font that was a simple, elegant solution.
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#5This article never comes out and says it directly, but it sort of has this tone like this is some sort of unusual thing. Hardly. You'd be hard pressed to find a successful web comic running for several years that hasn't put out some sort of book, or some sort of tangible, purchasable artifact. It's a great way to support your favorite comic while getting something nice back, if donations are too hard (or in some cases, not accepted).
(No disrespect to xkcd, and kudos on getting the NY Times placement.)
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#6They should make the "title text" obscured by a flap of paper that automatically lifts when your finger hovers over it.
We had some interesting discussions about how to best do it - jedberg@reddit had one of the cooler ones that involved building your own decoder to pass over the obscured text. In the end, Randy suggested a discrete Copyright-esque position and font that was a simple, elegant solution.
That's pretty clever. I agree that sometimes though, the simple approach yields a better solution :)
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#7This article never comes out and says it directly, but it sort of has this tone like this is some sort of unusual thing. Hardly. You'd be hard pressed to find a successful web comic running for several years that hasn't put out some sort of book, or some sort of tangible, purchasable artifact. It's a great way to support your favorite comic while getting something nice back, if donations are too hard (or in some case…
Other websites that became books:
I Can Has Cheezburger?, Garfield Minus Garfield, Hot Chicks With Douchebags, Suck.com, Indexed, Sleeveface, Passive Aggressive Notes, REAL Ultimate Power
http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-buy-the-cow-27-popular-we...
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#8This article never comes out and says it directly, but it sort of has this tone like this is some sort of unusual thing. Hardly. You'd be hard pressed to find a successful web comic running for several years that hasn't put out some sort of book, or some sort of tangible, purchasable artifact. It's a great way to support your favorite comic while getting something nice back, if donations are too hard (or in some case…
Other websites that became books: I Can Has Cheezburger?, Garfield Minus Garfield, Hot Chicks With Douchebags, Suck.com, Indexed, Sleeveface, Passive Aggressive Notes, REAL Ultimate Power http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-buy-the-cow-27-popular-we...
don't forget PBF: http://www.amazon.com/Perry-Bible-Fellowship-Almanack/dp/159...
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#9They should make the "title text" obscured by a flap of paper that automatically lifts when your finger hovers over it.
We had some interesting discussions about how to best do it - jedberg@reddit had one of the cooler ones that involved building your own decoder to pass over the obscured text. In the end, Randy suggested a discrete Copyright-esque position and font that was a simple, elegant solution.
The Dr. McNinja books just put the image title text at the bottom of the pages.
Re: Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book
#10This article never comes out and says it directly, but it sort of has this tone like this is some sort of unusual thing. Hardly. You'd be hard pressed to find a successful web comic running for several years that hasn't put out some sort of book, or some sort of tangible, purchasable artifact. It's a great way to support your favorite comic while getting something nice back, if donations are too hard (or in some case…
I agree, but I suspect most of them went through a traditional publisher. The big difference with what we're doing is that breadpig inverts the profit structure -- the artist (that is, xkcd) receives a majority of the profits from the book. We're aiming to deliver a high quality product similar to what you'd get from a 'traditional publisher' (we're using their suppliers for paper, printing, etc.) but properly rewarding the people creating the value.
Admittedly, one of the ways we've done this is by mitigating the risk that usually comes with publishing a book (surprisingly, to me at least, as risky and blockbuster-dependent as a Hollywood film) -- xkcd's readers know that merch (and this is one extension of it) is what pays the bills. And there's plenty of them, hopefully more than a few will want this on their bookshelf beside their old Calvin&Hobbes collection (I know I do, that's why I wanted to help this come to fruition).