If its just books (printed material) then they'll be no customs as books are VAT free (make sure they fill in custom label properly). If it comes with any extras then it becomes mixed media which can incur customs. Depends on how they send, the kickstarters i did for Gunsmith Cats etc didn't have customs as they were sent to a warehouse in the UK first and then shipped from their to UK addresses.
Same tier that I chose to support - I've not been charged for shipping as yet though (so only the €75 ~ £63 odd).I pledged this morning for the Oban Champion Collector's Set level - 75 Euro for the item, plus 75 Euro for shipping to the US.
Looking forward only to reaching the 150,000 pledge goal from what ones they have posted, specifically for the 5 panel digipak addition to the CE. I'll have to wait to see what further stretch goals are added later.
It says shipping will be charged afterwards in the pledge manager so no one should be paying for shipping yet
It's great and often overlooked IMO - nice animation style and story and it also has OP and ED by Yoko Kanno. What more could you ask for?
clampcastinwonderland.com
There is a podcast which mentions a new forthcoming Kickstarter project which is going to launch on 1st March at noon and ends on 31st March. It is a CLAMP podcast and the book is one all about CLAMP called "CLAMPdown" and is written by... oh, how embarrassing, it's me.
Episode 65: CLAMPdown Interview w/ Ian Wolf
Lucy and Robin interview Ian Wolf, an anime/manga critic and the author of the upcoming book CLAMPdown.
CLAMPdown
The lowdown on the biggest manga group going down, written during lockdown.www.kickstarter.com
That's truly mystifying. Did they give any other clues as to why it doesn't fit their remit? (I wondered if maybe they don't feature Kickstarters for books...)
They said: "It would be different if your planned book would include, for example, newly-conducted interviews with the CLAMP artists or other industry figures... Of course, if your book does get a confirmed publication date, then please let me know and I'll put up a story about it on ANN immediately. Re the yaoi paddle story, I think it was probably put up just because of the sheer infamy of said object in fan circles. That's purely my speculation, though."
Interesting. They'll give you promotion, then, if/when it's a done deal - or maybe when you're about to self-publish. So it's not entirely negative. Otherwise, they're stressing the 'news' part of ANN rather like us, maybe?) - they're looking for 'new' stuff to bring to readers.
