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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 18, 2011.
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The Hobbit: You get a sneak peek at our inventory and access to behind-the-scenes videos, photos, and blogs. We'll also add your name to the Thank You section of our website.
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The Scarlet Letter: You get some stickers, a sweet button, and a bookmark. And behind-the-scenes access, of course.
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Great Expectations: We'll mail you one of our favorite books, or you can stop by the store and pick out any paperback to take home. Comes with a stickers, bookmark, and buttons.
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Treasure Island: You get a 5% lifetime discount card! We'll also mail you a book, or you can pick one out at the store once we open. You also get an invitation to our backer-only preview day. You'll get a chance to see the store before we officially open, shop for books, hear some live music from local artists, and eat some free food!
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Big Fish: Uncharted Books tote bag! It's totes rad! It also contains an assortment of random (but awesome books), a handful of buttons and bookmarks, a preview day invitation, and that 5% lifetime discount.
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High Fidelity: You get a lifelong 10% discount (including online orders), free admission to any of our events, the Big Fish swag bag, and a big hug when you come by the store.
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The Name of the Rose: We'll name a shelf in your honor! You also get the High Fidelity rewards, but the discount increases to 20%.
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Animal Farm: The first pledger to donate on this level or higher gets our most valuable book, a first edition Animal Farm, as well as everything from the previous level. Holy buckets!
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As You Like It: Tell us your favorite book, which we will permanently keep in stock and on prominent display. You also get Name of the Rose stuff, natch.
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American Gods: You get a lifelong 30% discount, as well as two massive shopping sprees that you can give as gifts, plus Animal Farm stuff, PLUS you can cut to the front of the line any time you visit our store.
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Infinite Jest: Let's be honest: if you're dropping 10 grand on a start-up bookstore, you can afford more books than I can offer you. So in addition to the other rewards, we will do everything in our power to partner with and promote you or your business with ad space in-store and on our website. Our backer-only preview party is in your honor. If you're a writer, you're welcome to write book reviews for our site. Also, I will personally help you move once (if you live in Chicago).
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Uncharted Books is owned and operated by Tanner McSwain, a writer, publisher, blogger, and hopeless book nerd. Tanner is a graduate with honors from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, an award-winning fiction writer, and has considered Chicago's Logan Square home since 2008. His experience at McGraw-Hill and Agate Publishing taught him the ins and outs of marketing, publicity, and distribution from a publisher’s perspective, and a lifetime immersed in bookstores and library stacks has given him a curatorial eye. Fed up with the corporate life, he's now working to make Uncharted Books a reality and to give Logan Square the bookstore and literacy center it needs.
When do we get our books if we asked to have a book picked for us and sent, rather than picking one ourselves?
Congratulations Tanner!!!
I've just watched all but one for the five book stores in my home town get closed down. And although it will take me a very long time to get to see the store in person (I'm in Australia) its always been a quiet dream of mine to open a store like the one you guys plan to. So I wish you even more luck than your having now with your venture and I'll keep following on Tumblr.
You may be double or triple funded by the time this is done!
I saw you on tumblr and thought you were completely inspiring. I grew up in a worn down city where there are NO bookstores--no cultural gathering places of any kind. It is just depressing because the city can not support them.
I was just so happy to hear a bookstore starting up with an original idea and a lot of heart, when all growing up I had to watch bookstores close down.
I'm so excited for you guys and will tell my friends to help out too.
I also don't live in Chicago, but I totally and completely back this project! The world needs more independent bookstores! Keep living the dream.
I live no where NEAR Chicago, but I support you guys, because there NEEDS to be more place like this.
I wish I had a place like this where I live....