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[tamapalace]

Lawson Will Carry Tamagotchi Embroidery Patch Charms

If these look familiar that is because we saw them on NETSEA back in early March, 2024. Lawson, a convenience store franchise chain in Japan will be carrying them! These 8 Tamagotchi embroidery patch charms hang from a keychain and feature some of your favorite P1 & P2 characters.

There’s even one mystery charm that has not yet been exposed! They’ll be available in Lawson stores on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 in Japan. Priced at ¥869 including tax.

[ebookporn]

Because wire fraud and money laundering are now also book terms

Books have always played a role in politics as a way to get to know the candidate, outline their vision, and set the record straight after they have left office but political books can also be weaponized and not always in the way you might think. Recently Harper accidentally released metadata on a James Comer book called ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MONEY due to release on September 10th, strategic timing for a close election. Comer quickly denied he has a contract for a book but Harper wouldn’t have this data in their system if they weren’t already working on it. The ONIX feed is now been refed listed as UNTITLED by Anonymous. Shopping a book deal at the same time that he is leading the Biden impeachment probe, is obviously not a good look for Comer. Sure this is a way to throw chum the water and try and smear the other candidate but I live in Baltimore and another concern comes to mind. With a bankrupt Republican Party, it might be very important to watch just who is buying these books.

In 2019, just before Covid, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and two counts of tax evasion in what has become known as BookGate. Pugh and her long-standing legislative and campaign adviser, Gary Brown fraudulently sold self-published Healthy Holly children's books to local nonprofit organizations in order to obtain more than $800,000 to fund her campaign and enrich herself. These were cheap and poorly written books riddled with errors and spelling mistakes. Holly, the main character’s name, was spelled differently throughout the series. Tens of thousands of books sold to organizations and intended to be distributed to children ended up piled in warehouses and were never delivered. They were however resold multiple times. Significantly more books were sold than were ever printed. But this wasn’t just about selling crappy kids books. The buyers didn't care, they bought anyway.

CNN reported that during BookGate the University of Maryland Medical Center spent $500,000 to fund the purchase of some 100,000 books from Pugh’s company, Healthy Holly LLC. The former mayor also received about $114,000 from healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente for some 20,000 books from 2015 to 2018 and an additional $80,000 from the public foundation Associated Black Charities, which said it bought some 10,000 copies of Pugh’s between 2011 and 2016. All of these groups worked with and lobbied the city. 

Catherine Pugh was sentenced to 3 years in prison and ordered to pay $411,948 in restitution and to forfeit more than $600,000, including a property in Baltimore and nearly $18,000 from her campaign account.

Sound familiar? It is openly acknowledged that this is precisely what is going on with Donald Trump’s self-published bible. High-velocity sales of an objectively poor product are hard to hide and easier to subpoena and trace as people notice. Now if you can put a legitimate business between you and the questionable product all the better. We can see that with Trump’s media company now listed on the New York Stock Exchange. 

In the post-Trump world, it is no longer just monitoring institutional sales and people trying to game the bestsellers lists. Trade Publishers and retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble need to be extra careful and pay attention to just how and to whom these books are being sold lest they get caught up in an FBI investigation because wire fraud and money laundering are now also book terms.

~eP

[adamphoebe]

[sometimeslondon]

Leadenhall market, City of London

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DC returns to Wednesdays for new releases

DC returns to Wednesdays for new releases #comics #comicbooks #comicspro #comicspro2024

After a move to Tuesdays, DC announced at ComicsPro 2024 that it’d return to Wednesdays for New Comic Book Day. The return to the traditional day will begin in July. According to their announcement: Responding to feedback from retailers and readers, DC is returning to the traditional Wednesday on sale timing, with new collected editions and graphic novels continuing to release on Tuesdays. As a…

[pandiongames]

Faire Wholesale Marketplace for TTRPGs?

We have partnered with a wholesaler marketplace called Faire to allow retailers to purchase directly from our stock. We hope this makes the process easier to get our books into your stores. Further, we are also on Bits and Mortar, which allows local gaming stores to provide free PDFs with sales of our print books!

What This Means For Our Players

For the fans of our games - this means you may have access to our books in more of your favorite stores in the near future! We hope to get our books into your favorite local stores or online retailers. In addition to game stores, we hope to spur interest in other stores as well: outdoor outfitters, gift stores, stationery stores, artisan and craft stores, and local bookstores.

If you’d like to help with that, let your favorite stores know about our games and that they can order wholesale through our Faire page, or direct them to Indie Press Revolution (direct links below).

Information for Retailers

You can find our wholesale storefront here: pandiongames.faire.com If you have an IPR Retailer account: www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Pandion-Games

With Faire, we can support international orders and shipping, as they take care of the legal logistics for us, and they offer new Retailer accounts free shipping for a year and $100 off your order. In addition to that, they provide 60-day payment terms. We ship directly from our stock here in Greenville, SC to you.

If you’d like to be added to our retailer mailing list, please email us, and we’ll get you added.

For our Fellow Creators

To other game designers out there who have physical books or products: Consider setting up a Faire account (it’s free). Working with IPR and directly with indie TTRPG retailers is fantastic (and we’re doing that too!), but Faire broadens your reach outside traditional TTRPG spaces and may make it easier for indie retailers to purchase your stock (or restock them).

In addition to that, the more creators we have offering their games on Faire, the more visibility all our games will have overall as more and more people see the outstanding things we’re making and begin searching for more.

Faire is a marketplace of 80,000+ retailers, we need to let them know the indie TTRPG scene exists and is amazing.

While we are still learning the platform ourselves, feel free to reach out to us, and we can work together through questions and considerations.

If you do create an account, consider using our referral link to help us out a bit. But there is NO obligation or expectation to do so. I am not trying to make money off you. I genuinely think this is an interesting platform for indie TTRPGs creators to get on and see if we can make waves.

[happywebdesign]

OAX Original

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[r0semultiverse]

Weird conspiracy, but do you guys think they play copyrighted music in grocery stores 24/7 partially so that workers can’t film & upload the every day abuse of retail jobs & their oppressive store managers as easily?

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Ikea's attempts to ditch its maze-like store design failed miserably. What's the lesson for retailers?

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B!TCH#S IS WEIRD tote 👜💕💋

[tamapalace]

take them with you 👜

[prashantmishrablog]

Discover the Richness of "BTC Shradha" Blend Tea and More!

Enjoy our premium tea collection's opulent flavours. Each sip of "BTC Shradha" Blend Tea is a trip through quality and taste, starting with the powerful CTC Tea and ending with the reviving BP Tea and scented BOP Tea. With us, you can enjoy tea at a higher level.

[adamphoebe]

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[sequentialcanada]

The C-List! : Awards Festivals and Kickstarter season is underway!

Hey folks, it’s been a while and it’s kind of crazy out there so here’s some postive mainly, can-con comics news! Lets take a whirl wind tour of what’s been going on this week. The poster for the 2023 Doug Wright Awards, by Jay Stephens! This incarnation of our venerable C-List is going to be a weekly Friday summery of things we’ve shared from Canadian creators, publishers and retailers on our…

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