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Originally Posted by AndreasDavour
Just a thought. If you wont allow international backers on future crowdfunding campaigns, wont that skew the data on measuring demand if you cut out all international potential buyers?
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I believe this to be an overstatement. They've said PHYSICAL rewards will not be available directly as part of the crowdfunding campaign, and that international physical product will be fulfilled by Print-on-Demand. I've not seen a single thing suggesting PDFs will be denied to anyone.
In general, my experience - which is likely smaller and different than SJG - is that generally 1/5 to 1/3 of backers of any stripe are from "not the USA," and of those, they self-select to the digital-only rewards. The typical shipping costs to serve that fraction is easily double to quadruple those of the USA, and not all of those costs are passed on to the backer due to the complexity of the fulfillment process.