The Humble Bundle went live almost ten hours ago.
It's broken all the previous Humble Bundle records for Books. As I type this, about 7000 people have already bought the Bundle. It's raised $133,000. And it's done something really peculiar...
The average donation (right now $18.88) is actually higher than the level we had set as our top level ($15). This means that the books we thought were going to be mid-level books are actually, much to our surprise, the top level books.
This means a few things, including some changes of plans in the week ahead to make sure that as many people as possible get as much stuff as possible...
There's a great interview with me over at The Nerdist where I talk about embarrassment and age and why I'm willing to let some of the embarrassing stuff from the basement and the attic out. (Well, out for the next 13 days, anyway.) It's at http://nerdist.com/exclusive-neil-gaiman-discusses-uncovering-rarities-for-humble-bundle/
One of the best unexpected side-effects of this has been an ask me anything on Reddit with my daughters, Holly and Maddy Gaiman. You get a great sense of their personalities. They are both very funny in very different ways. For anyone wondering, this is what they look like now.
Maddy is the author of this book. Or she was, in 2002. It's letters and poems we sent each other while I was off writing American Gods, and she was Very Young. Only 100 copies were published, and given to close friends. And now it's part of the Humble Bundle too...
So thank you, and thank you again.
If you haven't bought it yet, you can still get your rare and collectible eBooks, eComics and eWhatnots at https://www.humblebundle.com/books for the next 13 days and 14 hours. 1249 pages of stuff. All the money goes to good causes, and you can control how much of it goes to charities, to the creators, to Humble Bundle...
(There will be more stuff in the bundle released midweek. If you've already bought the bundle you will get it all without having to pay any more.)
...
Also, things I should mention:
Miracleman #1 is out! The art by Mark Buckingham has never looked better. The story by me is, well, I'm still proud of it, after all these years. If you've wondered what the fuss was about, it's a great place to start and should be at your local comic shop.
http://marvel.com/comics/issue/50326/miracleman_by_gaiman_buckingham_2015_1
The Global Goals: On the 25th of September, the UN will officially adopt the new Global Goals. Head over to http://www.globalgoals.org and learn what they are, and what you can do to change the world for the better...
Before that, Penguin are going to be releasing the world's first Post-It Note book, to draw awareness to the global goals: I helped, a little, in making it happen: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/richard-curtis-and-neil-gaiman-michael-joseph-global-goals-curate-worlds-first-post-it-note-book-311417 Richard Curtis did all the heavy lifting.
And, in case you were wondering...
It's broken all the previous Humble Bundle records for Books. As I type this, about 7000 people have already bought the Bundle. It's raised $133,000. And it's done something really peculiar...
The average donation (right now $18.88) is actually higher than the level we had set as our top level ($15). This means that the books we thought were going to be mid-level books are actually, much to our surprise, the top level books.
This means a few things, including some changes of plans in the week ahead to make sure that as many people as possible get as much stuff as possible...
There's a great interview with me over at The Nerdist where I talk about embarrassment and age and why I'm willing to let some of the embarrassing stuff from the basement and the attic out. (Well, out for the next 13 days, anyway.) It's at http://nerdist.com/exclusive-neil-gaiman-discusses-uncovering-rarities-for-humble-bundle/
One of the best unexpected side-effects of this has been an ask me anything on Reddit with my daughters, Holly and Maddy Gaiman. You get a great sense of their personalities. They are both very funny in very different ways. For anyone wondering, this is what they look like now.
So thank you, and thank you again.
If you haven't bought it yet, you can still get your rare and collectible eBooks, eComics and eWhatnots at https://www.humblebundle.com/books for the next 13 days and 14 hours. 1249 pages of stuff. All the money goes to good causes, and you can control how much of it goes to charities, to the creators, to Humble Bundle...
(There will be more stuff in the bundle released midweek. If you've already bought the bundle you will get it all without having to pay any more.)
...
Also, things I should mention:
Miracleman #1 is out! The art by Mark Buckingham has never looked better. The story by me is, well, I'm still proud of it, after all these years. If you've wondered what the fuss was about, it's a great place to start and should be at your local comic shop.
http://marvel.com/comics/issue/50326/miracleman_by_gaiman_buckingham_2015_1
The Global Goals: On the 25th of September, the UN will officially adopt the new Global Goals. Head over to http://www.globalgoals.org and learn what they are, and what you can do to change the world for the better...
Before that, Penguin are going to be releasing the world's first Post-It Note book, to draw awareness to the global goals: I helped, a little, in making it happen: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/richard-curtis-and-neil-gaiman-michael-joseph-global-goals-curate-worlds-first-post-it-note-book-311417 Richard Curtis did all the heavy lifting.
And, in case you were wondering...
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