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How We Crowdfunded $750,000 for a Giant Book about Keyboard History

I’ve just published a massive essay on Medium detailing how I helped Marcin Wichary run a $750,000+ campaign on Kickstarter for his book Shift Happens. I explain our strategies, hard-won lessons, unexpected problems, and budgeting within the parameters and fees collected by platforms—and making sure you consider a post-campaign service to help deal with the actual job of managing deliveries. (The book sold out its final tranche of copies on 8 February 2024.)

 The tweet that set off a several-year project, culminating in a three-volume set of books,  Shift Happens
The tweet that set off a several-year project, culminating in a three-volume set of books, Shift Happens
 Typing classes in the 1800 and 1900s, from a spread in  Shift Happens
Typing classes in the 1800 and 1900s, from a spread in Shift Happens
 Sheets pulled from the press in Maine while the book printing was underway
Sheets pulled from the press in Maine while the book printing was underway