Kickstarter, COVID and international shipping

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"Running a Kickstarter is a very overwhelming thing..." Caspian Whistler is creative director and editor-in-chief of A Profound Waste of Time, the beautiful illustrated magazine that’s inspired by video games. He’s one of the independent publishers who has successfully funded his magazine through Kickstarter, and he has a campaign live at the moment to reprint issues one and two, which is currently sitting at just under £80,000 pledged with 22 days left to go. In this conversation he speaks about the stresses and strains of running a Kickstarter, independent publishing, and generally getting by in the pandemic.

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