Kickstarter launch date for Commodore: The Amiga Years announced!

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I dont understand why writing a book needs to be funded with kickstarter?

I've supported many books on Kickstarter, as well as video games, etc.  All of them well worth it, so much more involvement from the publisher than just clicking "add this to my cart" on Amazon, ya know?

Honestly I get a little angry when I read some of the hate for Kickstarter on various forums.  Here's a few of the things I've backed recently, that were it not for Kickstarter would never have seen the light of day:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/commodore-64-a-visual-commpendium-by-bitmap-books/description

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/commodore-amiga-a-visual-commpendium/description

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readingrainbow/bring-reading-rainbow-back-for-every-child-everywh/description

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/description

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2006072669/crumbs-and-whiskers-washington-dcs-cat-cafe/description

I'm sold on the concept and can't think of many things I would buy *without* a Kickstarter campaign, these days.  My tastes are rather eclectic and "outside of the mainstream" - it's like a band starting a Kickstarter because the "music industry" doesn't see value in a product, whereas their fans do.

Anyhow, TL;DR.  Rant over.  I'll be going to that cat cafe (from the Kickstarter above) soon, and looking forward to it! :kitty: