That authors don’t need big publishers anymore, because look, here’s this author making millions on his own! Seeing Sanderson’s Kickstarter take off has led some to claim that the author has, in essence, fundamentally changed traditional publishing, or shown that it is obsolete. This is in essence a self-published project Sanderson owns his own publishing house called Dragonsteel Books, which will be managing every aspect of the release of these “Secret Projects.” The shock was palpable on the author’s livestreams. It surpassed that benchmark just 35 minutes after going live. They set their goal for this Kickstarter at $1 million. It’s a historic moment in publishing, one that by all appearances surprised even Sanderson and his team. Sanderson plans to release details about each book throughout the month, but the vast majority of the funding thus far has come while the content of the books themselves is still largely a mystery. Even more impressive, at the time that the Kickstarter broke the record, very little was actually known about the books. To date it has raised over $24 million to fund the release of these books in 2023 backers can also opt to receive a monthly subscription box of merchandise for an additional price. Within days, Sanderson’s crowdfunding campaign became the highest funded Kickstarter of all time. The author announced on March 1 that he’d secretly written five extra novels during the pandemic, and that he would be releasing four of them through a Kickstarter campaign. Brandon Sanderson has been in the news a lot the past week.
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