Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Fair Trade Publisher Uses Kickstarter to Raise Funds with no Ethical Issues

Ghostwoods Books, a fair trade publisher based in London, UK, is using crowdfunding to ethically fund its book list for 2015.

The project features a new anthology with stories contributed by Warren Ellis, Richard Kadrey, Chuck Wendig, and several other well-known genre authors, and artwork by talented illustrator John Coulthart.

The idea for funding the entire list was generated by Maris Kreizman, publishing community manager at Kickstarter who said in an interview for Publishers Weekly that she looked forward to seeing a small press fund their whole list.

Ghostwoods  Books was the first to successfully Kickstart a book in the UK last year, shortly after Kickstarter opened its doors to UK creatives.

Their new Kickstarter campaign ends on October 19th, 2014. Read more here: http://kck.st/1yjuzo0