I’m working on due diligence and logistics for the WWW: S2 International Incident Kickstarter.

I’m working on due diligence and logistics for the WWW: S2 International Incident Kickstarter.

I’m working on due diligence and logistics for the WWW: S2 International Incident Kickstarter.

The USPS is raising international shipping rates sharply in February. By the time books are printed and ready to mail, it’s gonna cost over $20 US for me to ship a book outside of North America. That’s more than the retail cost of the book!

I love love love non-US fans and gamers and don’t want to shut people out due to these crazy shipping costs. While I investigate some options, I figured I’d throw it out to you folks for suggestions – anyone (in Europe and the UK, in particular) have experience or leads on people or services who can take in cases of books and break them into individual shipments at domestic postal rates?

8 thoughts on “I’m working on due diligence and logistics for the WWW: S2 International Incident Kickstarter.”

  2. I’m sticking with my local printer for quality and customer service. I literally can’t print the same quality of book for the price I’m paying using the POD services that do offer that potential, that I know of.

  3. In conversations with lots of others running Kickstarters, I’ve discovered I’m unusual in that my customer base is neatly split U.S./non-U.S. 50-50. These raises in rates impact my business very badly. I am desperate to find someone to work with who can print and ship easily in Europe, in Australia and nearby areas, and in Latin America.

  4. Yeah, I’m about 80/20, but WWW in particular sells well in the UK and I’d like to make sure I can keep on supporting those folks!

    Drivethru/Lightning Source does print in Europe in addition to the US, so that’s what a lot of people are doing. Again, quality/etc is my hangup with them though.

    I’m planning to reach out to some Euro-region retailers I have good relationships with to see if I can pay them to ship books as a one-time deal, too. But I’m not above sending someone (or several someones) a box of books if they can commit to going to the post office a couple of times (and paying for their time, of course).

  7. I just read here on the plus somewhere that Evil Hat (I think?) and Magpie had partnered up to deal with this. But I am not sure what their solution is. Maybe you could reach out to them.

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