Shipscat
07-21-2004, 01:31 PM
We can get it for you, cheap! Okay, maybe it's the same price, but a percentage of each sale will be funnelled back into the campaign!
You might have heard that Ben Browder narrated an audiobook for Buzzymedia- the Interlopers by Alan Dean Foster. It's going to be an 8cd set, selling for $45.00, and ready for mailing in early October, and word has it that it's going to be very good. (which is not at all surprising, since Ben narrates it!)
Buzzymedia has an affiliate program, and the Farscape Webmaster's Associaton is signing up sites to link to Buzzymedia-sales that go through these sites have a small percentage of commissions going to the To Be Continued Fund (previously known as the Where's my Riot fund, before that the Beyond Hope fund). This is the general fund that Scapers can draw on for their Farscape promoting projects-it's where the large fixed expenses for Comic Con, Dragoncon, Gencon, Origins and Worldcon-booths, tables, rooms, etc-came from. This fund is still in need of funds for promoting the miniseries for the next three months.
The nice folks at Buzzymedia started presales a little early (they warned that that was a long time for some people-I told them we were good at waiting!) and are working with us to get commissions to the fund in time for them to be useful for our mission. They also donated an audiobook and gift certificate to the cause! So look for those to be auctioned off some time in the future.
I don't want to speak for angie, but I think I would be remiss in not mentioning that I know that they have been similarly generous to her TV Guide Ad project.
So if you're thinking of buying Ben's audiobook, please think about buying it through a link from an FWA site, or at Benbrowder.net, where the proceeds go to the TV Guide ad. Mentioning either the FWA or the TV guide ad will also get the commission to those funds, if you should buy directly from the site.
If you are a webmaster, you can contact me for the purpose of finding out how to sign up for the project. It might not make much difference in terms of the percentage we get for many different sites to be signed up-I'm not sure how it will effect sales. But as we've learned in the campaign, spreading info as widely as possible on the net is good for Ben and Buzzymedia. And Buzzymedia's been very good to us.
The links for the FWA sites are, so far:
www.forfarscape.com (the Farscape Webmaster's Association Site)
http://www.farnews.org/ (Tiriel's new news site)
http://www.webspawner.com/users/farscapefanfic/index.html (Jeffrabb's new fanfiction archive site.)
And I'm still waiting for my absentee landlord to put it up on Farscapeweb...and I'll put some more participating site urls up when I have 'em!
I'm very excited about this and very grateful to buzzymedia. It's a nice feeling to advertise Ben's audiobook and help the campaign at the same time. :)
You might have heard that Ben Browder narrated an audiobook for Buzzymedia- the Interlopers by Alan Dean Foster. It's going to be an 8cd set, selling for $45.00, and ready for mailing in early October, and word has it that it's going to be very good. (which is not at all surprising, since Ben narrates it!)
Buzzymedia has an affiliate program, and the Farscape Webmaster's Associaton is signing up sites to link to Buzzymedia-sales that go through these sites have a small percentage of commissions going to the To Be Continued Fund (previously known as the Where's my Riot fund, before that the Beyond Hope fund). This is the general fund that Scapers can draw on for their Farscape promoting projects-it's where the large fixed expenses for Comic Con, Dragoncon, Gencon, Origins and Worldcon-booths, tables, rooms, etc-came from. This fund is still in need of funds for promoting the miniseries for the next three months.
The nice folks at Buzzymedia started presales a little early (they warned that that was a long time for some people-I told them we were good at waiting!) and are working with us to get commissions to the fund in time for them to be useful for our mission. They also donated an audiobook and gift certificate to the cause! So look for those to be auctioned off some time in the future.
I don't want to speak for angie, but I think I would be remiss in not mentioning that I know that they have been similarly generous to her TV Guide Ad project.
So if you're thinking of buying Ben's audiobook, please think about buying it through a link from an FWA site, or at Benbrowder.net, where the proceeds go to the TV Guide ad. Mentioning either the FWA or the TV guide ad will also get the commission to those funds, if you should buy directly from the site.
If you are a webmaster, you can contact me for the purpose of finding out how to sign up for the project. It might not make much difference in terms of the percentage we get for many different sites to be signed up-I'm not sure how it will effect sales. But as we've learned in the campaign, spreading info as widely as possible on the net is good for Ben and Buzzymedia. And Buzzymedia's been very good to us.
The links for the FWA sites are, so far:
www.forfarscape.com (the Farscape Webmaster's Association Site)
http://www.farnews.org/ (Tiriel's new news site)
http://www.webspawner.com/users/farscapefanfic/index.html (Jeffrabb's new fanfiction archive site.)
And I'm still waiting for my absentee landlord to put it up on Farscapeweb...and I'll put some more participating site urls up when I have 'em!
I'm very excited about this and very grateful to buzzymedia. It's a nice feeling to advertise Ben's audiobook and help the campaign at the same time. :)