You know how there are always those niggling little details you miss? The questions you forget to ask yourself until it may be too late?
“How am I going to distribute the PDF to the backers?”
Yeaaaah. Specifically, how am I going to distribute the PDFs only to the backers, and not the general public (’cause I’d like to be able to sell my work on DTRPG afterwards :P). Surely an email service would block me from BCCing 400+ people with a zip file. Even if they didn’t immediately block it for looking like a mass virus attack, it would likely end up in everyone’s Junk Mail.
Having it available for download somewhere is possible, but then all it takes is one backer to share the link and suddenly everyone is getting the final PDF, whether they paid or not.
Uhhhhh. Crap. Does it show that this is my first Kickstarter? Hahah.
Any advice suggestions?
Groups of 10 emails so as not to trigger the spam filters? Would take a while, sure. Good luck.
Is it possible to put it on DriveThru, and provide coupon codes to the backers? That still involves e-mailing, but hey at least its not e-mailing a giant zipfile?
Sean Gomes , I got your back. Messaging you right now.
For mass email, Mailchimp, I don’t know if you can add attachment to it though.
Lol, ninja’d Justin Phillips
I feel confident that many KSs I’ve backed have used DTRPG to do this.
Oh, I had already messaged Sean with the solution.
Awesome, DTRPG it is! Hope it doesn’t take too long to set up.
Set up an account? Not too long. Sending the items? About two minutes of effort on your part. The system does its thing afterward.
There must be a catch! I refuse to believe it’ll be that easy! 😛
Hell I thought we’d discussed this forever ago and you’d settled on DTRPG. 😛
We might have, but the intervening months of work + baby + writing-editing-correcting-layout must have utterly blanked it from my brain.
Oh well, I’m waiting for my digital copy ASAP, then 🙂