For some strange reason last week there were 4 mails in my inbox from people solliciting their work to be published by Huuda Huuda. Usually we only get maybe 1 of those mails per month.
I don't mind that people send us their stuff, on the contrary; even though I'm immersed in comics all day long, I always think what we receive might be something really special. Alas, we have yet to publish a single comic book / pamphlet that was sent to us through mail by an unknown artist.
It's not that we look down on everything we receive or that all stuff we get in is crap. On the contrary, mostly it's pretty ok, good for a few laughs now and then or some admirable art. But the truth of the matter is, Huuda Huuda is a really small publishing company with an empty bank account and we don't have the time or resources to publish everything that comes in our way. Tommi and me have to really carefully consider what we publish. Money is never the issue for us, far from it! What drives us is to see great comic books being published in finnish. Books that hopefully will serve as eyeopeners for some, that will be admired by others or that simply will be read in the library to fill up an idle 15 minutes. That we annoy the hell out of some people who hate art comics (cough kvaak cough), comes as an extra bonus for me.
Anyway, the fact that we got all of a sudden all these sollicitations reminded me of that time i was teaching the second year students in Muurla a couple of years ago. 4 or 5 students if i am not mistaking and all were hard working on a longer comic. That was their big poject for the year. I asked them, "ok, so you are devoting all your energy to your comic. But then what? What are you going to do with it? Do you think somebody will publish it, or are you putting it on your blog?"
They didn't have a clue. Also, they had no idea what kind of comic publishers were still existing in Finland and what kind of stuff they were publishing. So naturally that was the topic for the day, spilling out the harsh realities of the finnish comics industry. Great fun. "The chances of Egmont publishing your work are about 0%", that kind of stuff.
In this blog entry I'd like to for once and for all give an answer to all aspiring finnish comic artists on where to get your works published and what chances you have.
Let's make a list of all bigger finnish publishers and what they are about
WSOY
Part of one of the biggest media multinationals in Europe (Sanoma). Somehow seems to translate mostly french comics: Larcenet, Blain, Delisle, Dupuy&Berberian, Trondheim. Surprised me with publishing Kati Närhi's book. They publish sporadically finnish names but I guess if you are not already an inhouse illustrator like Kati or a wellknown finnish artist like Ville Ranta you won't end up on their roster.
Chances of an young artists being published by wsoy: 0%
Egmont
The biggest comic publisher in finland, gets their publications in the newstands throughtout finland. Apart from Asterix, Lucky Luke and other commercial crap they have a big line of manga and DC/Marvel stuff. But I'll be darned if they publish Finnish artist. They haven't in recent years. But Egmont does some surprisingly good books now and then: Death Note, Rocky, Pellonreuna.
Chances of a young artists being published by Egmont: 0%
Arktinen Banaani
A very successfull company that has found the golden formula for selling comics: newspaper strips! Fingerpori, Viivi ja Wagner, Jere all are published by Arktinen Banaani. They also publish a couple of comic graphic novels each year and are willing to throw a bunch of money once per year to a bit more experimental comics. (last years example: Kiki, montparnassin kuningatar) However, I don't really see them publish a full length comic book by a young artist. Doesn't mean you shouldn't send your stuff. Arktinen Banaani publishes comic magazines in which they feature new artists.
Chances of a young artists being published by Arktinen Banaani: 2%
Tammi
One of the big boys in the finnish bookworld. Published comics in the nineties and noughties because i suppose they felt they had to. Then they noticed how manga was selling like hotcakes and bought two small but flourishing mangapublishers (Sangatsu and Punainen Jättiläinen) and let them continue the work independently. Because of the crazy popularity of manga and the fact that about 70% of all young people "studying" comics are into manga, the market for homegrown, finnish manga is pretty big and if you are really talented you might get a shot at it.
Chances of a young artists being published by Tammi: 3%
Like
No longer an independent bookpubisher (bought by Otava in 2006) and really, i don't get what they are going for with their line of comics. Which is maybe a good thing, that not everything always has to be such easily branded. Big respect for publishing Tommi Musturi's Toivo series. They also are willing to publish totally unknown names from abroad(provided however the comic has some leftist agenda. Case in point: this ) or from finland: check this one out for september. So all in all, pitkämies digs it.
Chances of a young artists being published by Like: 5%
Sammakko
Turku based publishing house that has one huge hit in comics: Kiroileva Siili. So they nowadays publish anything by Milla Paloniemi and are looking for the next hit. Hence they published Baarien Nainen (which i liked, btw) So my advice would be to do the same as the above mentioned examples: start your own comic blog, become hugely popular (as in about 1000 readers a day) and then approach them. Other then that: don't bother
Chances of a young artist starting own comic blog and becoming hugely popular with it: 6%
Jalava
I guess we can be short about Jalava since they don't publish finnish comic artists. they are on automatic pilot kind of with their hugo pratt and sokal books. Which is a shame because they were such a great publisher in the 80s and 90s.
Suuri Kurpitsa
Moving on to the truely indepedent "support your scene" publishers, here's Suuri Kurpitsa, a one man army from Tampere that's been going on for like almost 30 years. As Pauli himself explains on his site: "I am willing to take in new artists if they please me and are commercially viable to sell a few hundred copies" Most known artists from Suuri Kurpitsa are Tiitu, Ville Pirinen and Jaokim Pirinen.
Chances of a young artists being published by Suuri Kurpitsa: 2%
Asema
Asema is run by Villa Ranta and Mika Lietzen mainly to publish their own books. But they are open to others as well. As a matter of fact, in 2009 the then unknown Aino Sutinen send in her work to Ville who immediately said:" I'll publish you. You are the first person to have ever send in good enough material to warrant a good book." It's also the first time I have ever heard of such a thing happening, to be honest. Still, good news. And as Asema is celebrating it's tenth anniversary in september this year, they are publishing a series of smallpress comics. So who knows, go for Asema!
Chances of a young artists being published by Asema: 2%
Zum Teufel
Petteri Ojas imprint, publishes finnish artists only. Now that he has struck a deal with Arktinen Banaani, the books published by Zum Teufel are really well distributed. And in the beginning of this year Petteri published three books by totally unknown finnish artists. Well, unknown to the big audience. Most of these artists had been doing small press for years. If you ask me, a young artist will have the best shot at being published at Zum Teufel. Now that Petteri is starting a nationwide distributed comic magazine especially devoted to Finnish comics (Zum Teufel Zeitung), chances of getting published are even bigger!
Chances of a young artists being published by Zum Teufel: 7%
Daada
I guess the cat will be out of the bag soon, so i might as well make it public that Marko Turunens small art house Daada is going to start publishing books again. Starting from september. It will be smallscale in the beginning but nonetheless. Great news for all of us. Marko is starting by publishing the works of 4 of his students. So my advice to a young artist would be to apply to Lahti art school and listen to Marko carefully
Chances of a young comic artist getting into Lahti artschool: about 70%
Kreegah Bundolo
I am only including Kreegah Bundolo in here because Hans will publish Matti Hagelberg's new book in september and that deserves mentioning. Also, with Hans you never know: maybe he will publish you, most likely not though.
Kuti
This quarterly tabloid already has 16 issues under it's belt. Bet you didn't see that coming, did you! The content of Kuti varies dramatically and they are on the lookout for finnish talent all the time. You don't have to have skills in technical drawing or anything: be yourself, be original and draw up a story as some sort of stream of consciousness.
Chances of a young artists being published by Kuti: 7%
Huuda Huuda
I explained our situation already. Truthfully, we only publish works of people we know and whom we have seen developing. We are willing to try out stuff with our pamphlet series though. But my advice would be to do first your own thing in smallpress / self publishing and we will have a chat in my store a few years later. Ok?
Phew. That's it, i suppose. Yes i know, there are other publishers still out there but i decided they were too small press to be included here or they have stopped publishing comics or maybe simply because i overlooked them. Feel free to comment on all things i left out! Finnish or english. And here is some similar reading
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Pitkämies opens second shop!
Maybe some of you have already heard that the Comics Centre is moving out of it's premises, and if not: Kalle is explaining a bit more about this in the local newspaper (in finnish). The main reason is a looming renovation but it remains still unclear when this will happen or when the move will be made.
In the meantime however, Pitkämies is expanding it's business! That's right, I am opening a second shop in Helsinki. Pitkämies will be taking over the shop in Myymälä2
Myymälä2 is an art gallery in Uudenmaankatu, figuratively and literally the only underground gallery in the whole Helsinki Design District In a sense, the perfect partner for Pitkämies.
I am currently renovating the shop there, so it will have the same look. The name for the shop will, naturally, be Pitkämies2 . The new shop will focus a bit more on artistic comics but will feature also a healthy selection of great graphic novels and a wellcatered harvest of finnish comics. Music and clothing will ofcourse also be available. Events and concerts will be held there as well (for example Ben Butler and Mousepad on 8th of May), so in a sense this is more then just a cosy little extension to Pitkämies but will live a life on it's own as well.
The opening party will be held on 14th of May, but the store will be already operational 5th of May. More news will follow later.
p.s. My Facebookpage is still the best way to keep up to date with all that's happening at Pitkämies
p.p.s. what would Pitkämies2 be without the "pantteri" wallpaper designed by Ritva Kronlund?
In the meantime however, Pitkämies is expanding it's business! That's right, I am opening a second shop in Helsinki. Pitkämies will be taking over the shop in Myymälä2
Myymälä2 is an art gallery in Uudenmaankatu, figuratively and literally the only underground gallery in the whole Helsinki Design District In a sense, the perfect partner for Pitkämies.
I am currently renovating the shop there, so it will have the same look. The name for the shop will, naturally, be Pitkämies2 . The new shop will focus a bit more on artistic comics but will feature also a healthy selection of great graphic novels and a wellcatered harvest of finnish comics. Music and clothing will ofcourse also be available. Events and concerts will be held there as well (for example Ben Butler and Mousepad on 8th of May), so in a sense this is more then just a cosy little extension to Pitkämies but will live a life on it's own as well.
The opening party will be held on 14th of May, but the store will be already operational 5th of May. More news will follow later.
p.s. My Facebookpage is still the best way to keep up to date with all that's happening at Pitkämies
p.p.s. what would Pitkämies2 be without the "pantteri" wallpaper designed by Ritva Kronlund?
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Tuxdog
I was folding shirts yesterday after i had closed the store and when i was putting the Tuxdog shirts back, i was thinking to myself, "What was i thinking in ordering this shirt?" I decided to try on the small sized shirt and it was a perfect fit for me. But yeah, I'm a skinny guy. And i must say, it looked pretty cool so my thoughts immediately shifted from "what the hell was i thinking" to "how come nobody is buying this shirt?"
But yeah, in case you were wondering, what is the Tux dog? Although the official tuxdog site (www.tuxdog.org) is offline you can get some more information thanks to the crucial web archive site . First of all, what appeals to me the most about the tuxdog is the fact that it is an open source image. "It was created by one of Paper Rad (Ben Jones I suppose, not that it matters) as a ten-year-old. It's now been declared as open-source, meaning that the character and its likeness is free for anyone to use, thus encouraging the development of a bright and wonderful Tux Dog-filled world. If one of Paper Rad hadn't created this character, then someone else would have done; it can be seen as a deeply profound expression of the cultural subconcious, jacked straight into the page from the main vein." So now, everday can take this form and make stencils, buttons, shirts and what not
here's tux dog by Sammy Harkham:
And one by Kevin Huizinga
I assume these doodles were made when the Kramer's Ergot crew was touring to promote that fifth issue in which Tux dog was featured in the Paper Rad contribution
In any case, as said Tux Dog was a cartoon thought up by one of Paper Rad's members when he was 10 years old. Though mildly unbelievable, his father, was an avid fan of Max Beckmann and his love of Beckmann's self portrait mixed with the child's own artistic influences at the time, Bill the Cat and Garfield led to the form, Tux Dog.
As the young artist's lame attempts at self promotion began to take form a host of Tux Dog chalk board drawings at school, and white board/dry erase drawings began to sprout up.
And that's about it, other than a failed tux dog iron-on made in 7th grade art class, Tux's reign as the best character ever was cut very short. Some say the introduction of the Simpsons overshadowed Tux's importance(to the artist, not to society), however, later in life, with the Simpsons in syndication Tux began to make a come back(in the artist's mind).
Tux Dog's comeback is outstanding. Not only can you find him on Paper Rad's website, his presence is spilling over to other Paper Rad projects and stuff. The logical conclusion after Tux's long history was obviously to make him open source.
The following is an essay written by the sister of the Tux Dog inventor.
"Tux Dog was instantaneously a household classic. Thinking back, my first memories of Tux Dog were as a worn stuffed animal propped up on the unmade bed of a 6th grader.
Although I realize that he never existed as such.
What I am in actuality remembering is Opus the penguin, who really was a stuffed animal in that household.
Stuffed Opus and Tux are like transparent screens of memory stuck together - inseparable - like plates left too long in the sink/mind.
Tux was conceived in a notebook in Massachusetts, but he was born with the psychic power of a stuffed animal. What that means is that Tux is a three-dimensional hero in two dimensions!"
Tuxdog is ofcourse also on facebook! Join the group, I just did and you know what, I think I'll wear that shirt tomorrow.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Top 100 best selling comics at Pitkämies in 2009
A few comments on this one: Fingerpori 2 was by far the best selling book this year. It sold almost three times as much as the runner up, Ville Ranta's Eräänlaisia Rukouksia. One reason for this was the Fingerpori exhibition we had in march just when the book was released. It was probably the most popular exhibition we ever had at the Comics Centre. So yeah. That was nice.
Then there are ofcourse a lot of Huuda Huuda titles in the top 20 also for a ver simple reason: these are the books i always have in the store. With other books it always takes a while between it getting sold out and then me ordering it and receiving it back in the store. On principal though, i always try to keep certain books always in stock. For example Jimmy Corrigan, the smartest kid on earth, is one of my alltime favourite book and it is very easy to reply to customers who ask my opinion about which book i like and then say: Jimmy Corrigan is the best comic book ever made. It makes me feel pretty proud to have sold in 2008 26 copies of Chris Ware's magnus opus.
For the rest, a pretty nice list i would say so. A good mix of finnish and foreign material, all pretty good stuff (ofcourse, otherwise i wouldn't sell it in my store, that goes without saying).
There are a few surprises or perhaps complete unknown comics to some people that end up pretty high. Let's take the Caterer by Jeff Lint at spot 28 (sold 17 copies). This one is a beyond absurd comic reproduction from the seventies, full of excellent one liners and ununderstandable situations. Since Tuukka really likes this one, he practically forced this comic on everybody he knew or on people who came in the store whenever he was filling in behind the counter.
Naturally, Pitkämies has sold plenty of Jyrki Nissinen this year, and will continue to keep selling his top notch exploits as long as we keep on running. He has 14 titles in the top 100. I guess that says pretty much it. Hopefully one day some important comic publisher (cough Alvin Buenaventura cough) will spot Jyrki's genius talent and spread some finnish exhuberant madness around the globe.
All in all, I have no idea how to compare my best selling list with what's officially "in the charts" in normal bookstores or normal comic stores. It's radically different ofcourse. I bet you won't find any Mat Brinkman or Roju's Huonoa Seksia (spot 19, sold 19 copies) , but isn't that why people find their way to Pitkämies? I will try and keep up the selection of the store as it always have been: a carefully curated selection of good quality comics, wether they are mainstream, manga or silkscreened art. And I am hoping you all keep supporting this haven of indie goodness as long as Pitkämies as behind the wheels!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Record Selling at Pitkämies
In January Pitkämies is having a beyond crazy record sales. We are trying to get rid of ALL records from the store. So it's your chance to pick some cool records for ultracool prices.
We are doing the UFF style discount: every day the discount on ALL records gets higher and higher. However, we have for some items only 1 copy, so it might not always be wise to wait until the last minute.
This means the end of the record selling business of Ifsociety. The label will continue to exist by releasing a couple of select records per year. This also means the end of the co-operation between Pitkämies and Ifsociety. It really pains me that it has gone this way. I personally thought we stocked a pretty neat collection of cool records in the store. We had a really good thing going for a while, a well catered selection of cheapo classics on cd, punk and indie milestones on vinyl and all the latest releases from the finnish quality labels at competitive prices. But the decision to pull the plug on the record pushin business lays in the hands of Tommi and Mikko. And i completely understand them. Lately with music sales dropping everywhere (to give an example, the overall sales in music in Finland has dropped 25% in 2008 compared to the previous year!), it just didn't make anymore sense in pouring money in a loss making business. The profit margin Ifsociety had on selling records at Pitkämies was already quite slim to begin with. In the end why put all this effort in keeping up a record selection if the only people who benefit from it is everybody besides yourself?
I talked to Mikko and Tommi about this and i felt that both of them are just releaved to get rid of the burdon of this extracurrical activity and being finally able to focus again on the things they started Ifsociety in the first place: releasing a few records a year and doing that with all your heart and strength you can muster.
However, this doesn't mean the end of musicrecords at Pitkämies. I stubbornly continue spreading the gospel of fine music. The selection of records will be a lot smaller then what we have but there will still be plenty of reasons to come and check out the the music department at Pitkämies:
1) Pitkämies will have ALL the releases of ALL quality finnish record labels at affordable prices (read: cheaper then äx, stupido or cdon.com). Here's the list of labels so far: Ektro, Helmi, Fonal, Ifsociety, Verdura,...
2)I will get a weekly shipment of hot new vinyls. Beware that i will order only small amounts of each items and that they go fast. It might not be a bad idea to stop by often, say every saturday, and make sure you can get that Dirtbombs lp for dirtcheap. I am not going to restrict myself to a particular niche of records (not that Ifsociety ever did that!), I am just going to order records that i want. Maybe next week i'll want to have the new Field Music on double vinyl but the week after i may go all out and order a great selection of 60s French pop and Yé-Yé from Jacques Dutronc to Serge Gainsbourg
3)As of principle i wholly support all diy and selfpublished releases. Anybody who has released their own record can be assured of a spot in the Pitkämies record shelves. Cd-rs, tapes, 7"s: i dig it all. So you know, the new Dinosauruxia is already here.
I know Pitkämies will never be able to compete with Levykauppa Äx, because that's just a great record store with a huge selection. Instead i want to make the recordselection an exciting addition to the comics i am selling. You will stumble across some weird records maybe but you can be assured that all records will have the personal approval of Pitkämies himself. Also, I am not aware of everything that happens in the music scene, so I am open to all suggestions and I will do my best to provide a good service for my music loving pals (customers). Any music made with heart and soul is welcome at the store!
Lastly, I want to send out a sincere thanks to Tommi and Mikko who have helped me and the store in so many ways i will never be able to express my gratitude fully.
So thanks dudes, it was a fun ride while it lasted!
We are doing the UFF style discount: every day the discount on ALL records gets higher and higher. However, we have for some items only 1 copy, so it might not always be wise to wait until the last minute.
This means the end of the record selling business of Ifsociety. The label will continue to exist by releasing a couple of select records per year. This also means the end of the co-operation between Pitkämies and Ifsociety. It really pains me that it has gone this way. I personally thought we stocked a pretty neat collection of cool records in the store. We had a really good thing going for a while, a well catered selection of cheapo classics on cd, punk and indie milestones on vinyl and all the latest releases from the finnish quality labels at competitive prices. But the decision to pull the plug on the record pushin business lays in the hands of Tommi and Mikko. And i completely understand them. Lately with music sales dropping everywhere (to give an example, the overall sales in music in Finland has dropped 25% in 2008 compared to the previous year!), it just didn't make anymore sense in pouring money in a loss making business. The profit margin Ifsociety had on selling records at Pitkämies was already quite slim to begin with. In the end why put all this effort in keeping up a record selection if the only people who benefit from it is everybody besides yourself?
I talked to Mikko and Tommi about this and i felt that both of them are just releaved to get rid of the burdon of this extracurrical activity and being finally able to focus again on the things they started Ifsociety in the first place: releasing a few records a year and doing that with all your heart and strength you can muster.
However, this doesn't mean the end of musicrecords at Pitkämies. I stubbornly continue spreading the gospel of fine music. The selection of records will be a lot smaller then what we have but there will still be plenty of reasons to come and check out the the music department at Pitkämies:
1) Pitkämies will have ALL the releases of ALL quality finnish record labels at affordable prices (read: cheaper then äx, stupido or cdon.com). Here's the list of labels so far: Ektro, Helmi, Fonal, Ifsociety, Verdura,...
2)I will get a weekly shipment of hot new vinyls. Beware that i will order only small amounts of each items and that they go fast. It might not be a bad idea to stop by often, say every saturday, and make sure you can get that Dirtbombs lp for dirtcheap. I am not going to restrict myself to a particular niche of records (not that Ifsociety ever did that!), I am just going to order records that i want. Maybe next week i'll want to have the new Field Music on double vinyl but the week after i may go all out and order a great selection of 60s French pop and Yé-Yé from Jacques Dutronc to Serge Gainsbourg
3)As of principle i wholly support all diy and selfpublished releases. Anybody who has released their own record can be assured of a spot in the Pitkämies record shelves. Cd-rs, tapes, 7"s: i dig it all. So you know, the new Dinosauruxia is already here.
I know Pitkämies will never be able to compete with Levykauppa Äx, because that's just a great record store with a huge selection. Instead i want to make the recordselection an exciting addition to the comics i am selling. You will stumble across some weird records maybe but you can be assured that all records will have the personal approval of Pitkämies himself. Also, I am not aware of everything that happens in the music scene, so I am open to all suggestions and I will do my best to provide a good service for my music loving pals (customers). Any music made with heart and soul is welcome at the store!
Lastly, I want to send out a sincere thanks to Tommi and Mikko who have helped me and the store in so many ways i will never be able to express my gratitude fully.
So thanks dudes, it was a fun ride while it lasted!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Best selling comics at Pitkämies september 09
1. Löydät minut tästä kaupungista (Mari Ahokoivu)
2. Naaburger (Aapo Rapi)
3. You shall die by your own evil creation (Fletcher Hanks)
4. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen III: Century 1 (Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil)
5. Taksi Kurdistaniin (Aino Sutinen)
6. Shenzhen (Guy Delisle)
7. Brinkley Girls (Nell Brinkley)
8. Baarien Nainen (Jupu)
9. Samuelin Matkassa (Tommi Musturi)
10. Borgtron 10 (Jyrki Nissinen)
11. Bar Miki (Michelangelo Setola)
12. Tuuli ja Myrsky (Tiitu)
13. Huuhkaja: kuin noidat yössä (Yann)
14. Savage Sword of Conan: volume 1 (Steve Buscema and others)
15. Gigantic Robot (Tom Gauld)
16. Circus Femme Fatale (Emmi Valve)
17. Äitienpäivä (Amanda Vähämäki)
18. Maalaispunkin Päiväkirja (Pauli Kallio)
19. Teratoid Heights (Mat Brinkman)
20. Apocalypse Nerd (Peter Bagge)
Comments
Well, since there was the comic festival i took this time a top 20 of best selling comics. The number one spot is a shared one between Mari's new book and Aapo's Naaburger. They sold an equal amount of copies. I let Mari keep the number one spot because of alfabetical order, plus i know she will promote this blog post on her facebook status report. On the other hand, the best selling item by far was the fabulous Pitkämies shopping bag but i left it out of the list since it is not a comic.
I am also happy to see the Brinkley Girls there, that's an absolutely stunning book that everybody is wanting to have. And also very happy to see that my customers keep appreciating cult classics such as Mat Brinkman's Teratoid Heights. (Which reminds me, i saw it for sale on amazon for 162 dollars... mmmm maybe i should up my price a bit...?)
Here's a top 6 of best selling items from the music department: Le Corpse Mince de Francoise is now extra hot since they use the tune for the finnish version of Project Runway (Muodin Huipulle), which is ofcourse a MUST SEE tv program
Music Sales
1. Mutiny#13 (zine)
2. Joose Keskitalo Kolmas Maailmanpalo (cd)
3. Le Corps Mince de Francoise: Ray Ban glasses (lp)
4. Keränen: Green Car Crash (Casette)
5. Band of Horses: Cease to begin (lp)
6. Joose Keskitalo: tule minun luokse, kulta (cd)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Rent Kramer's Ergot 7
People have probably seen the fabulous Kramer's Ergot 7 anthology in my store. I bet you have even browsed through it. If you don't recall the book in question, here's a reminder for you
So you see, this baby is a monster. It's huge. In fact, it's so big that most people are put off from buying. "I don' t have a bookshelf that's big enough for it" is the most common reply i get when i show the book to people.
But now Pitkämies has come up with the best solution for all you people who want to read and absorb the book. Just rent it from me!
Yes, just borrow Kramer's Ergot from Pitkämies just like it's a library here. I have borrowed an old scheme a friend of mine once came up with, which i think will work perfectly here.
Renting the Kramer's Ergot costs 5 euros per month. The way it works is very simple: you come to the store and say you want to borrow the book. You give me your name and emailaddress plus one hundred euros. Then you can take the book with you to read at home. After one month you come back with the book and i return to you 95 euros. Et voila we are done.
The next person can then borrow the book with a deposit of 95 euros. This way the price of the book gets lower and lower each time somebody borrows it. If you feel like keeping the book to yourself and not return it, no problem! You have already paid for it in a way!
If you live outside Helsinki or cannot make it to the store but want to reserve it, please order it from me here and mention it on the comment section when you can come and pick it up
So you see, this baby is a monster. It's huge. In fact, it's so big that most people are put off from buying. "I don' t have a bookshelf that's big enough for it" is the most common reply i get when i show the book to people.
But now Pitkämies has come up with the best solution for all you people who want to read and absorb the book. Just rent it from me!
Yes, just borrow Kramer's Ergot from Pitkämies just like it's a library here. I have borrowed an old scheme a friend of mine once came up with, which i think will work perfectly here.
Renting the Kramer's Ergot costs 5 euros per month. The way it works is very simple: you come to the store and say you want to borrow the book. You give me your name and emailaddress plus one hundred euros. Then you can take the book with you to read at home. After one month you come back with the book and i return to you 95 euros. Et voila we are done.
The next person can then borrow the book with a deposit of 95 euros. This way the price of the book gets lower and lower each time somebody borrows it. If you feel like keeping the book to yourself and not return it, no problem! You have already paid for it in a way!
If you live outside Helsinki or cannot make it to the store but want to reserve it, please order it from me here and mention it on the comment section when you can come and pick it up
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