Publishing Perspectives has an interesting story about a book assembled to raise money for Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake. The idea behind 100 Stories for Haiti was to assemble 100 stories from all over the Internet, and then publish them as a book and e-book. Author Greg McQueen says that the book would not have been possible five years ago, before the dawn of social networking: As it happened, I posted [to social networks] an appeal for stories on the morning of Tuesday, January, 19. Just one week after the earthquake...

Only a couple of days remain to donate $20 to help Doctors Without Borders’s efforts in earthquake-torn Haiti if you want to receive the $1480 bundle of digital RPG content from DriveThruRPG that we covered here and here. The tally on the site currently stands at $162,200 donated by gamers to help out in Haiti. This digital giveaway exemplifies one of the greatest benefits of the zero marginal cost of distribution of digital media. The low overhead of providing it means there is practically no cost to give it away, so it can serve as a very...

Updated to reflect change to how the package download works, and additional information. Found via twitter/blog post from Alexander Williams, the role-playing game digital content vendor DriveThruRPG has put together an amazing package of donated digital RPG (PDF) content for people who donate $20 through them to Doctors Without Borders Haiti Earthquake Response: an assortment of $1481.31 in list price worth of specific gaming books. A full list of what’s included can be found here. It includes some pretty popular indy titles, such as Beast Hunters, Three Sixteen, and Spirit of the Season. There’s also the tie-in...