What we're all about
Let's get personal: this is a one-woman show! My name is Cait and books have helped shape my life. After recently dealing with a personal tragedy, I've decided that it's time for me to focus my energy on something positive--especially during this very divisive time in our country. And so the idea of Required Reading was born! So much progress has been made with the development of this project, and we're getting close to making it a reality. Your contribution will help us put the finishing touches on a business that is sure to make a difference.
How It Works
Required Reading will be a monthly subscription service emphasizing small + independent publishers. Subscribers sign up and can pay monthly to receive a new book, beautifully wrapped, sent to their door each month. Beyond the month-to-month service, subscribers can also prepay to receive a 3-month, 6-month, or 12-month subscription at discounted rates. Not an avid reader? We also think our subscription service will make a great gift for the bibliophile in your life!
receive a beautifully wrapped book at your door each month!
Subscribers can opt to join one of the following clubs when they sign up for Required Reading:
- the Fiction club
- the Poetry club
- the Non-Fiction club
- the Rotating club (your genre will change each month)
That's all there is to it!
What We Need & What You Get
- We want to be as transparent as possible. $2,850 is our goal and it was a number that was carefully calculated. Over half the funds needed will be to stock our inventory--our biggest expense! Roughly 10% of funds needed will be allocated toward investing in packaging/shipping materials. The remaining amount of funds needed will go toward licensing fees, website/support tools fees, and storage space costs.
- PERKS! They come with your contribution!
- $20+ contributed and receive $5 off your first month and you'll be entered into a contest to win a free 3-month subscription.
- $50+ contributed and receive your first book FREE! + be entered into a contest to win a free 3-month subscription.
- $100+ contributed and receive your first TWO books FREE! + be entered into a contest to win a free LIFETIME subscription.
The Impact
By contributing to the Required Reading campaign, you will be helping to fuel a project that will support many struggling artists in the literary world. You won't often find books from small & independent publishers in the big box bookstores, and many of those who author these beautiful books are women, people of color, part of the LGBTQIA community, or disabled. Your support to this campaign means more funds being allocated to the literary art community and the wonderful people who are struggling to keep it alive.
Your support goes beyond the literary world, as well: when Required Reading launches, every new subscription purchased will allocate 10% of its funds to nonprofits and organizations that protect the rights of marginalized voices, such as the ACLU, Stand With Standing Rock, and Planned Parenthood.
Other Ways You Can Help
We understand that not everyone can contribute monetarily. Heck, that's why we ourselves needed to launch this campaign! There are other ways that you can help us out.
- Make some noise about our campaign. Post this page to social media channels, email it to friends and family members or any bibliophile you know who might be interested in our service. We appreciate the old-fashioned ways of generating hype, too: word of mouth!
- You can use the Indiegogo share tools!