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April 12, 2008 at 8:47 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
Just a heads up that the USPS is raising postal rates across the board on May 12th, and the rates on this site will reflect that increase on May 11th. While the domestic increase is modest (but still an increase nonetheless), the international increase is more substantial–due, we suspect, to the extremely weak US dollar. Anyway, if you were planning on placing an order, the smart move would be to do so before the rate increase. Here are some samples of the change from old rate to new rate:
2 Pound Media Mail from $2.47 to $2.58
20 Pound Media Mail from $8.59 to $8.88
Flat-Rate Priority Mail Envelope $4.60 to $4.75
Flat-Rate Priority Mail Box $8.95 to $9.30
Flat-Rate Priority Mail International Envelope (Canada) from $8.55 to $9.45
Flat-Rate Priority Mail International Box (Canada) from $21.85 to $22.75
Flat-Rate Priority Mail International Env. (Not-Canada) from $10.45 to $11.35
Flat-Rate Priority Mail International Box (Not-Canada) from $35.15 to $37.00
April 6, 2008 at 9:27 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
Just when we were on the verge of running out, a long-forgotten cache of Rolling Thunder #2 was discovered last month on the east coast and is now in our possession. We have about 150 copies left, which won’t last too long—so, if you wanted to get one before they are gone forever, now is the time. Also, as long as we have issues #2-#5 to sell, the Rolling Thunder Bundle is only $10.
March 17, 2008 at 8:10 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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We printed this postcard on the letterpress in our garage and for the last month we’ve been sending it out with every order—and we’ll have enough to last at least another couple months.
Image of the back after the jump.
March 10, 2008 at 1:18 am · Filed under Calling All Anarchists, posted by pfm
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The Far East Cell will have a table (two tables, in fact!) at the 13th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, taking place on March 22th & 23th in San Francisco [sweet Google Maps link here]. This year, our eighth straight, we’ll have our usual stacks of free posters, stickers and papers, as well as the new Rolling Thunder #5, Expect Resistance, and all of our other books and magazines. See you there.
March 1, 2008 at 9:42 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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After retiring our expect resistance sticker that had served us well for many years, we are happy to debut our new vinyl stickers—dark grey and key lime green are the new red and black, you heard it here first. We had 7,500 of each design printed and every paid order gets one of each included for free—we’d say it’s a safe bet they’ll last at least five months.
February 21, 2008 at 8:59 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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When around a hundred hours a week are spent putting packages together for mailorder, it’s the little things that keep you going. One of those details are the small labels we’ve been putting on packages* for the past 8 years, which have gone through several dozen iterations. We just got back our latest batch, and our first series, that are by far the most elaborate and fantastic labels yet. We’re quite pleased with them and hope they deliver a small smile with each package—especially since we made 10,000 of them. As of this post they are already beginning to speed out through the shipping systems of the world to doorsteps everywhere.
Fancy photos of the series after the jump.
January 10, 2008 at 8:59 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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It’s been an incredibly busy last few months here in Salem, and we’re just beginning to reach equilibrium in our post-Expect Resistance world. The spectacularly and continually delayed Rolling Thunder #5 is creeping towards completion (80 pages down, 24 to go!), as we struggle to find free moments between stuffing boxes full of books and carting them to the post office. Rest assured that we are closing the gap, and almost exactly 6 months late, RT#5 should be out around the end of February. I dare say that while the long delay sucks, it has certainly given us the time to make this the best issue yet.
December 10, 2007 at 11:13 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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It was a crazy day here at the Far East HQ—mailorder action from dawn til dusk. The books arrived at 9am, we started a big ol’ fire in the mailorder room to take the 36º chill off, and there was no letting up until we dropped off the packages at the Post Office at 7:23 PM with only seven minutes to spare. In a mailorder melee for the ages, we got more than 150 orders done today, filling 15 USPS mail bins and requiring two trips to the post office. Every order that came in before 5:00 PM PST Monday was mailed out today and the books are currently speeding their way to anxious hands. We’re excited beyond any words for people to finally see these books; let us know what you think when they arrive.
November 27, 2007 at 3:07 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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Last week I traveled to Louiseville, QC, which is about 75 miles northeast of Montreal and also happens to be where Recipes for Disaster and Expect Resistance are printed. Ostensibly I went up there to do a press check for ER, but perhaps more important to me was that after seven years of publishing books, I was finally able to see one being printed, in person, for the first time. The short version is it was super-awesome and the 5 (of 7) signatures of ER I saw get printed looked amazing.
The long version, complete with a photo-tour, is after the jump.
November 16, 2007 at 4:24 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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Expect Resistance: a crimethink field manual is the title of our new book, which is about two weeks away from shipping. The above photo is of the free bookmark we printed up on our letterpress this weekend, celebrating the book’s release, that will come with the first 500 individual orders—we can’t predict the future but we expect them to run out well before the first month is up. Note that the subtitle for the book is actually wrong on the card—totally my fuck-up, what can I say? I blame it on Lisa and Laycie making 4,000 cookies the day I sent the design to the platemaker, and me eating 3,998 of them. That much sugar can make a person do crazy things, like not remember the name of the book they’ve been working on for months.
One more image after the jump.
November 7, 2007 at 9:46 am · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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This week, the proofs for the new mystery book arrived and just as quickly were sent back to the printer with two thumbs up and a cheery exhortation to commence printing with maximum haste. It was the first time we’d seen the book printed out in its entirety, with both colors present, and it was super fucking exciting—as we flipped through the pages, absurdly large grins and enthusiastic high-fives abounded. Carefully going over each page looking for errors, we truly felt this book was everything we had hoped for it to be. And that felt good. In the meantime, we’ve added the tech specs to the teaser page, and expect to reveal the book’s name next week.
October 30, 2007 at 10:12 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
I always go through a period of intense anxiety and depression upon finishing a big book project—the bigger the book, the more intense the emotional fallout. It’s hard to work on a project for years, night-and-day for the last few months, and then, boom, it’s off to the printer and we have nothing to show for all our work. The month it’s being printed is a long, tough month. So, in an effort to make this month go by a little faster, I’ve decided to let the secret out: after seven years, the true sequel to Days of War, Nights of Love is only a month away. It’s our most ambitious book yet, and we’ve put everything we have into it. The teaser page is here, and we’ll update it with details (like, um, the title) a bit at a time over the coming month. Also, issue #5 of Rolling Thunder should be available right before the end of the year; sorry for the delay—we’ve had our hands full.
October 9, 2007 at 11:22 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
A few years ago we started the CrimethInc. into Libraries program, and it seemed to be going well—judging by anecdotal evidence we heard about people requesting and receiving books at their local libraries. Well, thanks to a tip from CrimethInc. Special Agent Hadley, we found a way to measure the results a little more objectively at the website WorldCat.org.
Current Availability (click on number to see list of all libraries with book):
Days of War — 159 Libraries
Recipes for Disaster — 33 Libraries (25 here & 8 here)
Evasion — 59 Libraries
Off the Map — 44 Libraries
These numbers are great, more than we expected, and you can be sure almost every single one of these books was the result of someone requesting the library to acquire it. We’re particularly surprised that even 33 libraries carry Recipes for Disaster on their shelves—it takes a brave (or oblivious) librarian to order a book subtitled “an anarchist cookbook.” Anyway, keep up the good work folks and don’t forget: each request makes the next request more likely to be filled, so keep at it!
October 4, 2007 at 10:45 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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We’ve been sending these bookmarks out in orders for many months, but I thought it’d be nice to put together a post showing all of them together. These were printed for free courtesy of Nikki McClure, who donated some extra space on some posters she was having printed. There are six different ones, all two-color, some with red and black, and some with a grey-blue and black. All have the same printing on the back, in red, that we printed on our letterpress. Several thousand were printed and we have at least a third of them left, so one will be going into every paid order for several months to come.
September 26, 2007 at 12:57 pm · Filed under Internal Memos, posted by pfm
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Here are some fancy pics of a fancy postcard we recently printed on the letterpress in our garage. The excellent thick and recycled paper scraps we printed on were provided to us years ago as leftovers from a Stella Marrs printing, so these were basically free to make (hours of labor donated by yours truly). One goes out in every paid order, we have a few hundred left, so it’ll last a few more weeks. Thanks a million to Richard Olmstead for his original art.
More images after the jump.
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