Thank You
The Humble Bundle finished today, at a little over $394,000, from almost 25,000 people. Some of that goes to Refugees. Some to the CBLDF. Some goes to the Publisher, which in this case is basically me, and all my share goes straight to the Gaiman Foundation (and my agent, who dealt with all the contracts, is passing on her share to the Gaiman Foundation too). Some of the artists of the work asked for their share to go to specific charities, most wanted it tossed into the general charity pot, and two are using their share of the money to pay rent and buy food.
The last time we did the Humble Bundle, 15 months ago, it raised $633,000. Which means that old and out of print books, comics, and things I was embarrassed to let out in public, have raised over $1,000,000. I wish I could go back in time and tell the 23-year old me writing his Duran Duran book that it would be the best thing he could be doing with his time.
Thank you to everybody who bought it. Thank you to everybody who helped, or who agreed to have their work go into the bundle, to Charles from the CBLDF and Cat from Neverwear who worked their bottoms off to assemble everything and make it work, and to the people at Humble Bundle for having a wonderful platform that does good.
Just a bit over 15 hours left to pay what you want for a Bundle of Gaiman rarities! Proceeds benefit CBLDF and UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
Over 21,000 people have downloaded it in the last 13 days. It goes away soon, probably for ever, definitely for some years.
15 hours. Reblog this, to let people know…
@neil-gaiman the site is down? Any chance you have a different link?
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/neil-gaiman-book-bundle should work. (I just tested it.)
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Just a bit over 15 hours left to pay what you want for a Bundle of Gaiman rarities! Proceeds benefit CBLDF and UNHCR, the UN refugee agency.
Over 21,000 people have downloaded it in the last 13 days. It goes away soon, probably for ever, definitely for some years.
15 hours. Reblog this, to let people know…
You have four days left to go on this. Thousands of pages of rare books and comics, audio and even video. It benefits refugees and the CBLDF. The publisher’s share goes to The Gaiman Foundation (which then disburses it to other charities) and to a few other good causes, including feeding a couple of the comics artists who have fallen on hard times.
(It’s also the only way to get the Duran Duran book I wrote when I was 23 without damaging your wallet.)
Please, reblog this. Let people know. In four days, it’s gone and done. And if you don’t want it, or already have it, it’s a fine gift for the comics and books reader in your life…
Neil Gaiman’s Rarest Works Benefit Charity This Holiday Season!
Humble Bundle invites you to celebrate the holiday season with international bestselling author Neil Gaiman in the Humble Book Bundle: Neil Gaiman. This bundle is a collection of priceless rarities, many of which are unavailable anywhere else, including two brand new ebooks: A Calendar of Tales with Paul Roman Martinez and Neverwear: A Portfolio of Stories, featuring art by Jim Lee, David Mack, Roman Dirge, and more.
Time is ticking…
If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan looking to score some of his rare pieces, this humble bundle collects them all in electronic format for a ‘pay what you like’ bundle with the proceeds going to charity. Win-win-win. Take a peek. Throw a few bucks his way. Get access to rare Gaiman works, and support worthy causes at the same time. Woot!
It supports Refugees, and it supports the CBLDF, and the chunk that comes to the publisher actually goes to the Gaiman Foundation, where it supports a whole load of charities and good works.
Nine days left to go.
Guess who just got a “Humble Bundle” - a zillion pdfs and even a couple of audio files- by Neil Gaiman from her dad? Guess who is a very fucking happy camper??
I haven’t even HEARD of theses stories. I don’t even know what they ARE, if they’re poems or shorts or whatever. There is at least one speech and according to my dad some of them are full length books????
WHAT
tis the season for reading, bitches
I hope you enjoy them!
And to anyone else…
The Bundle is at https://www.humblebundle.com/books/neil-gaiman-book-bundle and it has another ten days left, and then it’s done. And the rare books and stories and comics, the audio and the video and everything else, will softly and silently vanish away. They would make great holiday gifts. And dear lord, are they cheap.
This scarce edition of Gaiman’s “B-sides and Rarities” sold out of its 500 copy run before publication back in 2011, and is made available to all of Neil’s fans for the first time ever in this bundle! This book collects short fiction including “Jerusalem,” “Feminine Endings,” “Orange,” and his very first published story, “Featherquest,” as well as poetry, book reviews, speeches, the personal essays “Dresden Dolls,” and “View From the Cheap Seats,” plus much more! An indispensable treat for all Gaiman fans!
Pay $15 or more to unlock A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff and tons more in the Humble Neil Gaiman Rarities Bundle! Proceeds benefit CBLDF, The Moth Education Program, and The Gaiman Foundation.
There’s only a day left to go. If you want the books in the Humble Bundle, quick, do it now…
One of Neil Gaiman’s very first publications, Ghastly Beyond Belief gathers odd, befuddling, and frequently hilarious quotations from the worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy! Out of print since 1986, collectible copies of this rare book now run upwards of $200! Ghastly Beyond Belief was created with author and film critic Kim Newman who compiled the film and TV part of the book. Neil compiled and edited the prose portions.
Pay more than the average to unlock Ghastly Beyond Belief and tons more in the Humble Neil Gaiman Rarities Bundle! Proceeds benefit CBLDF, The Moth Education Program, and The Gaiman Foundation.
I love this cover so much. I doodled it on a napkin in a bar, handed it to the editor who didn’t know that authors don’t design covers, so she gave it to the art director who gave it to the artist…
Time is ticking on the Humble Bundle, and the average price keeps going up. But it’s still less than $20 for 1249 pages of rarest stuff…
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HUMBLE BUNDLE reminder
In case you’ve missed it, there’s a HUMBLE BUNDLE going on, for charity, of my rare and (in some cases) absolutely unobtainable books, at https://www.humblebundle.com/books. You can get them as ebooks, DRM free, in whatever format you want, for the next ten days. Then it’s done. Pay whatever you want (as little as a dollar) for 4 books, $15 for another 5 including my Duran Duran biography from 1983, and “Above the average” for about a dozen other things (9 are up on the screen now, but you’ll be able to access the others when they come out in a few days).
The average was expected to be, as with all other Humble Bundles, somewhere between almost nothing and the top level. Instead it’s above the average, and creeping up, because you people are so very cool.
It supports the cbldf and The Moth Educational Program (and all the money I get from it goes directly into the Gaiman Foundation, which Does Good). You can decide how much of the money you pay in goes where.
Ten days left. Then the stuff goes back into my basement, probably mostly for good. And the sooner you get in the lower the average is going to be.