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Modern Hamlet achieves record-breaking Kickstarter campaign

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

A book allowing readers to choose their own fate has become the most successful publishing campaign ever. The campaign, run on Kickstarter, an online funding platform, has generated more than 29 times the amount of money needed to make the book viable.

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