What if a store called Nerdfighters “R” Us existed and it was everything DFTBA Records sells, but in an actual physical store.
Won’t happen until we buy Nerdfighteria Island. I mean, nerdfighters are so spread out, geographically, that we’d only have one or two customers a day and that’s not enough to like, pay rent, on a store front. Or pay someone to stand there all day to ring up one or two orders. Not to mention the utility bills.
Right now we rent a much cheaper warehouse, not retail store, to process orders. And we’re able to just cover that out of the small SMALL percentage of royalties we keep for our services.
But yeah, if John ever gets off his ass and finally buys us an island, that’d be the first thing on my To Do list.
Is Alex Day still signed to DFTBA records? Or did he get signed to somewhere else?
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Alex has been having a lot of fun lately throwing around the “unsigned musician” phrase. Technically, Alex and most of the other DFTBA artists are “unsigned”. That’s because DFTBA is awesome, and we don’t lock our artists in to any kind of deal that would hold them back from exploring other avenues/options.
So Alex isn’t “signed” to DFTBA, he just has an agreement with DFTBA. He’ll sell the majority of his merch through us, and we’ll pay him an awesome royalty on what we sell. But he can also sell stuff on his own, or through other shops, and we’re cool with that too.
When Hank and I started DFTBA, we basically set it up to run how we, ourselves, would want a label to treat us. One thing that was important to us, and to others we came to find, was that we had options. Options mean loose agreements, not rigid contracts.
That said, DFTBA offers a better royalty cut on physical merch sales than ANYONE ELSE. And because of that, not only do the artists we work with continue to work with us time and time again, but we are constantly attracting new artists to our awesome little group, including recently, Nice Peter (Epic Rap Battles of History), Charles Trippy and Matt Maggiacomo.
So while you will still be able to buy Alex’s next physical release from DFTBA, including his new shirts and posters, you will also see him doing other cool stuff… like Sopio and Wrist Bands, the kind of brain crack that DFTBA started as, and that we would never want to limit our artists from exploring. =)
I just video chatted with John Green to show him the empty TFioS box sets. UPS dropped them off ten minutes ago. Now to stuff these with the CD and postcard bundles Kristen and I have been assembling over the last week.
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I only have about 500 packs of TFioS discs left to assemble, so we’re in the home stretch!
One thing I want to say before we send these out… There are seven different discs, four different postcards, a ticket stub, a wrist band and a piece of styrofoam in each and every one of these 3,000 box sets. There is a very good chance that at least a couple boxes will miss a CD, or one of the postcards, or we’ll skip a wristband.
We haven’t noticed any of these mistakes yet, but there’s bound to be one or two.
IF your box has two Disc 3s, or no DVD, or whatever… please just send us a nice email about it and we’ll be more than happy to make it right. Kristen and I are assembling these by hand, we’re both human, we both make mistakes. They are not intentional. We did print a few extras of each item just in case. We WILL make it right, DFTBA always does. Just stay calm and email us. =)
Okay, that’s all, back to the packing table.
Yay, Kristen and I get to spend the next two weeks assembling 3,000 CD and postcard sets and then building boxes and stuffing said CD and postcard sets into those boxes. Happy new year…?
Today is DFTBA Records three year anniversary of existing.
my friend made a thing!
You’ve probably heard of John Green’s upcoming book, The Fault In Our Stars. It comes out in January. John loves to read his new books on blogtv and youtube, but no matter how much we all beg and plead, he’s never recorded his own audiobook in his voice.
That changes this January with The Fault In Our Stars Audiobook Box Set. This box set is limited to only 3,000 copies and is available exclusively from DFTBA Records. There will be no digital version of this released anywhere, these 3,000 copies are it.
The box set includes John reading the book (6 CDs), a DVD of videos by John, a Hectic Glow wristband, a Hectic Glow concert ticket, and numerous postcards from locations in the book.
There will be a second audiobook released for The Fault In Our Stars for Audible and Amazon, but that one will be read by a female narrator.
This is DFTBA’s first Box Set, first Audiobook, and a new direction for authors that we’re all really excited about. DFTBA has, for a while, wanted to work more with/for authors with dedicated fan bases, offering products that major publishers couldn’t, or don’t want to (like Maureen Johnson’s magnet sets). This is an awesome first step in that process, and I hope we’ve put together a package the hardcore John Green fans will love.
The Fault In Our Stars Audiobook Box Set is available now for pre-order. Shipping January 10, 2012.
Say good-bye to the old DFTBA warehouse. It has served us and all of nerdfighteria well. Our new warehouse is more than three times the size, and I’ll get pictures of that tomorrow!
It’s true. Our mom makes soap using milk from the goats that she raises. The soap is excellent—it is the only soap in our home—and it is possibly made using the milk of a goat whose birth you watched on the Internet.
I have my bar of DFTBA soap! Your parents sent it to me for Christmas, like, two years ago. I haven’t used it yet, it’s too awesome to wash away!! Guess I should buy a second bar to actually use. =)
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