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#404: Too Much Information October 14, 2009
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NOTES FROM THE MANAGER

Related Strips: #379: While You Were Gone II: The Wrath of Keith; #393: I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me; #394: Stuck Up

PLEASE take this ONE-QUESTION SURVEY about the Multiplex: Book 1 print collection. I need help gauging the level of interest in the print book in order to help decide the size of the print run.

I've noticed in responses to the survey that a VERY small number of people (literally, two) have misgivings about the planned $25 cover price so I wrote up a lengthy explanation over in the forum (and also the Monday Notes) why that's the price point I am most likely to go with, assuming I have a 1000-copy print run.

I don't think it's a bad price point — I own plenty of $25 TPBs from major publishers like Marvel and Image. But it is higher than I would prefer to sell it.

If I get enough responses in this survey (please only answer it once) and/or enough orders from distributors to convince me that a 1500 would not leave me 30 cases of unsold books in my living room, or if I get some lower printing quotes from printers making an $8 wholesale price on a 1000 copy run viable, I would absolutely be thrilled to sell the book for $20 instead — but much bigger webcomics than Multiplex don't move even 1000 books in a year, so I would be very surprised if that happens.

To address a couple of other comments I've seen:

1) If you pledge via Kickstarter, the book has free shipping to the US or Canada at the $30 level (plus the five eBooks and a thank you in the book itself). At the $40 level, you get free shipping anywhere in the world. You will, however, need an Amazon Payments account.

2) When the book is available through the Multiplex Store, you will need a credit card or PayPal, but I will consider adding the option of paying by check or money order if you ask nicely and don't make a habit of bouncing your checks. Again, we will deliver anywhere in the world, but postage will obviously be extra.

3) I'll obviously start making the convention rounds a little bit more once I have a book to sell, where you won't have to pay for shipping and will likely get it at a discount, with some doodles in it, and an awkward conversation thrown in for free.

4) The necessity of being able to sell to comics distributors (at the industry standard 60–70% discount) is so that you and the thousands of comics fans who haven't heard of Multiplex are able to flip through the book and pay for it with cold, hard cash — the best payment method of all.

5) If your local comics shop doesn't have an account with any of the distributors carrying the book (or the book doesn't get picked up by distributors, which is a possibility) — I'll also have a huge discount available to comic book retailers through the Multiplex Store, so you can try to convince your local comics shop to order one for you (and one or two for their racks!). I'll provide more details about this sort of thing when the book actually exists.

Also! Three comics this week again (although Friday's is a minor one). See you then.

Don't forget! For every $500 we raise through Kickstarter past $4500 before next Monday, one lucky winner will have their Facebook/Twitter/whatever avatar drawn for them by yours truly in the Multiplex style. (And once I've drawn you, it's pretty much a given that you'll appear in the regular strip at some point.) There's guaranteed to be one winner already, and we're just $110 short of a second one!