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Originally Posted by Gogar

Yep, according to a quick google search, it's considered income unless you manage to come up with deductions. THis guy has done one before that was something like 6 or 7 million, so I think he gets it.

He's done some interesting stuff because of the success of this most recent kickstarter.

On March 25, Sanderson posted a video to his YouTube channel to let fans watch in real time as he and his team at Dragonsteel Books went through and backed every single publishing project on Kickstarter. It’s an amazing way of giving back, and just one more example of why so many people love this dude.

“Today, we are gonna do something awesome,” Sanderson announced to introduce the video. “The Kickstarter has been successful beyond my wildest dreams. So I got my team together and I said, ‘what can we do to give back a little to this community that has supported us so well?’ So we are going to back every single Kickstarter in the publishing category.”

He then proceeded to make good on that declaration. Over the course of the half-hour video, he and his crew at Dragonsteel parsed through all the publishing project currently listed on Kickstarter, and backed every single one (unless it was NSFW). They even came across a few that spoofed Sanderson’s Kickstarter announcement video, where he punked fans by making it seem like he might be taking a break from writing before dropping five manuscripts onto his desk. And yes, he backed those too.

The range of projects backed ran from a home teaching aid book for Kindergarten-aged children, picture books, adult fantasy books, and even some books written by kids. There were a handful of projects which Sanderson even decided to give extra to in order to push them over their funding limit and ensure that they get made.

By the time the dust settled on Dragonsteel’s Kickstarter-backing extravaganza, they had backed 316 projects. As Sanderson said, this was a pretty amazing way to give back to the community.

My wife has been following this. Apparently, he's done some other stuff too, that I can't remember. For instance, I guess he sometimes hires folks for a project, but then their position is short term. But he's apparently made some positions "permanent" as a result of the results of this kickstarter.