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Glenn Fleishman

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Apr 20, 2025

Testing Out New Kickstarter Features

Kickstarter has had long periods in which it has changed little about how to build, run, and manage post-campaign details. These lulls have…

Testing Out New Kickstarter Features

Glenn Fleishman

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Sep 23, 2024

How To Get Shipping Addresses from Kickstarter Backers

They’ve already given you money. Why won’t they just tell you where to send the item they bought?

Photo of an old, worn mailbox, green patina or paint, with its flag up, attached to a wooden fence. The word MAIL is on the front flap.

Glenn Fleishman

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Jan 22, 2024

How We Crowdfunded $750,000 for a Giant Book about Keyboard History

At first sight, the idea of 1,216-page two-volume work on keyboards for $150 might seem like a heavy lift. But it was years in the making.

How We Crowdfunded $750,000 for a Giant Book about Keyboard History

Glenn Fleishman

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Jun 23, 2023

Touching the Past on a London Visit: the Stanhope Molds and Plates

Synchronicity is real. With a trip to London already planned for last week, I booked a research visit to St Bride Foundation’s printing…

Touching the Past on a London Visit: the Stanhope Molds and Plates

Glenn Fleishman

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Apr 15, 2023

A Visit to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

This post made possible in part by people who provide support for my writing at Patreon. Thank you!

Cover of the book Bill Blackbeard: The Collector Who Rescued the Comics

Glenn Fleishman

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Mar 28, 2023

A Growth Industry: Typewriter Stores

Three typewriter stores operate within an hour’s drive on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, possibly the densest number in the world.

A Growth Industry: Typewriter Stores

Glenn Fleishman

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Jan 3, 2022

A Brief NFT Explainer

…and why they are just as pointless as you think they are, environmental issues aside!

Glenn Fleishman

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Feb 22, 2021

Reading the Reprintings: The Printer’s Side

Book collectors make a big deal about first editions. Often, their interest is not just the first time a work appears in print, but rather…

Reading the Reprintings: The Printer’s Side

Glenn Fleishman

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Feb 3, 2021

Letter to PCC Markets Board of Directors

Dear board members,

Glenn Fleishman

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Dec 26, 2020

Don’t Coffin Me, It’s Crackers

A joke went awry because of ligatures, an element of typography that’s one of the many things Gutenberg pioneered. But why?

Don’t Coffin Me, It’s Crackers

Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman

Technology journalist, editor, letterpress printer, and two-time Jeopardy! champion. I seem to know everyone #glenning

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