I woke up this morning (Italian time), and I found the project reached the £ 5000 pledged in 1 day. So I went from "wow" to "oopsie, this year I will really have to work".
Anyway, thank you everyone here for backing the project. We will really try our best to create an amazing volume: something lasting.
If the trend of backing continues as this first day, at the end we will have the budget to create something amazing both in content (more content) and in production quality (hardcover, to last years and years).
What else... any question: just ask. Questions are good.
Difficult questions... (eh eh eh). Welcome as well.
Why a Publisher resorts to Kickstarter? (which is a great way - sometimes the only way - to give space to independents projects).
I think that Kickstarter is not just good for indie project, but it's the best and only way for all projects that go outside the mold. And that would betray themselves is forced inside any standardized production. Sometimes Publishers have those as well.
In LS we had been musing on this book for years, but every time it didn't work. Too much expensive. Too high the price to the public (a book like this would probably go to 40+ US$ in a bookstore or around that). Too small the print run. Unconvinced distributors. Etc...
Basically this book is not for the big distribution (for that there are tons of book around), but it's for the Tarot community. So we went to Kickstarter.
And if Kickstarter takes into the Tarot Community at large, I think the future will see many more projects coming in from many different sources. But Publisher founded or Indie... most of them will be quality projects.
Let me know any question, or ask Andrea in the Kickstarter page.
Thanks again,
ric