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Dec 31, 2011
- First created · 40 backed
- Melissa Gira Grant 860 friends
- Website: glasshousespress.com
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Access to backer-only project updates & the first ebook edition (Kindle and epub).
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All of the above, & a thank-you postcard from me.
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All of the above, & a copy of the print edition will be inscribed with your name and donated on your behalf to an Occupy library.
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All of the above, & your own copy of the print edition mailed to you (US backers)
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All of the above, & you will be acknowledged by name in the print edition as a patron (and with a personal inscription from me).
Estimated delivery: Feb 2012Pledge $250 or more
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All of the above, & a signed and numbered "People's Library" print from artist Molly Crabapple.
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All of the above, & a handwritten letter from me to thank you.
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All of the above, & a limited edition print zine with more stories that didn't quite make it in.
Estimated delivery: Feb 2012Pledge $1,000 or more
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All of the above, in a lovely custom box (along with more strange ephemera from the reporting and time of this story).
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All of the above, & I'll come to you for a reading for you and your friends who like books and have feelings about them (in the United States).
Estimated delivery: Feb 2012
Creator Melissa Gira Grant on April 2
crosshatchr – thanks for the note. I'd been delaying in making an update until I had a ship date, but will update with that news to all backers, with some more info you all will need in order for me to make sure your physical rewards make their way to you. Unfortunately when the Occupy camps were dismantled over the end of 2011 and beginning of 2013, my distribution plan for getting the physical book out to people was radically altered, as I had no longer had an obvious way to ensure they'd make it into the communities we raised funds to send them to. I should have tapped the groupmind here for advice. Appreciate the nudge and reminder that I can do so. And I apologize for not raising that flag sooner.
Creator crosshatchr on April 2
there are 163 people who are owed an update at the least, since the last one was over a year ago. at that time physical books were imminent, but never since materialized. 107 of us pledged at a level to receive a physical copy, and have not received any update. another 56 people pledged at a level to have a physical book donated to an occupy library. have the books even been printed? who knows!
if the project failed or is on a long delay please communicate the status. it would take just a moment to keep your backers, who pledged over $10K, in the loop.
Creator Martin Houston on January 3, 2012
Reading is one of the main ways in which we move from ignorance to knowledge. I have started a facebook group called Occupy Leaflets. We already have some great shared resources for posters that different groups can reprint and adapt but after looking for a couple of weeks I could not find anything similar for the sort of leaflets/flyers you can shove through strangers doors or give out in the street. As nobody seems to have done it yet I have taken the plunge with the FB group and registering occupyleaflets.net and occupyleaflets.org domains to act as repositories for the shared resource. Please consider joining and spreading the word. As the main-stream media seems reluctant to convey our message we need a way to reach the public directly. If there was a place to go where anyone can down load good quality information in a form that can be given out in the street then anyone with a printer can do their bit by printing a few hundred at a time and giving them out. Apologies if this is a little off topic but I thought you folks would be interested. http://www.facebook.com/groups/245499822188556/
Creator allaboutgeorge on December 31, 2011
Everybody who contributed, give yourselves a round of applause!
Creator Martina Robinson on December 31, 2011
congratulations! I donated books I wrote to the library and it broke my heart to see it destroyed. I am donating to you, so others with remember it always!
Creator Marianne G Petrino on December 30, 2011
Is done, Melissa! Good luck! Here is the link:
http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/1914046-take-this-book
MGP
Creator Melissa Gira Grant on December 30, 2011
Thanks, Marianne!
Creator Marianne G Petrino on December 30, 2011
Posting this on GoodReads :)
Creator Jessica Atcheson on December 27, 2011
Totally awesome project--everyone spread the word!
Creator Alia on December 18, 2011
Very excited by this project! My son's Friday treat is reading So You Want To Be A Wizard together-- I picked it up from the People's Library on Thanksgiving Day at Liberty Plaza. We're halfway through it, and I will be sad to finish it because then we will need to pass it on to someone else. Still, it's a way of helping the library reach the people, one book at a time.