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I have a number of ebooks I've written that I'm looking to bundle them together to sell. I'm wondering what the best software solution is to do this? Should I just use e-junkie and a wordpress template? A Kickstarter type site? Something else?

For a project in my English class last year, I bought the domain name http://starwarsproject.com/.

I was surprised it was available, but it helped me get an A on the project. Now that it's getting close to expiring, I'm wondering if it's possible/worth it to sell it, and how I would go about doing so if I was going to?

My first ever Kickstarter campaign failed two weeks ago. It was disappointing, but I learned a lot about what I did wrong and what I could have done better.

For example: Timing. I was trying to launch a summer clothing brand, but due to Amazon Payments delays the Kickstarter page didn't launch until mid-June. This forced me to move back delivery times, and turned a lot of customers away. Choose the right demographic. Certain demographics are more likely to succeed than others *Have a large Facebook or Twitter fan base. When you already have a large following, they'll make it much easier to get coverage and social proof that convinces other customers who are unfamiliar with your brand to buy

For all the HNers out there, what do you think it takes to fund a successful Kickstarter campaign?

I'm a computer science student who used to have 20/20 vision and lately I've found that my distance vision is becoming blurry. I think the problem is the amount of time spent staring at a computer screen (computer vision syndrome), and am wondering if anyone has any advice or tools they use to help avoid this?