For those of you reading via RSS, pop over to my homepage real quick and check out the new front page and updated portfolio.

Why the change? I’m hoping that the front page will now be a more friendly portal to newcomers.

For those long-time readers, if you want to skip the frontpage and go straight to the blog, update your bookmarks:

http://www.austinkleon.com/blog/

I should also point out that there’s a new subscription options page. If the blog feed isn’t enough for you, you could always upgrade to the Blog + Tumblelog Superfeed!

And for those of you with eagle eyes, you’ll have noticed a (gasp!) shopping cart. Yeah, it’s just a teaser for now, but one of our projects this summer is trying to get some merchandise up for sale. We want to start small with maybe just some mini-poster prints, and then move on to bigger and better things.

A couple questions:

• What’s the most successful way to sell products online? Paypal? Etsy? Ebay?
• What would you like to see sold in my store? Prints of poems? Mini-comics? T-shirts?

If anybody has any advice or comments, please let me hear them!

Forbes had a “Special Report” on Books over the weekend, with some really great articles, especially one on the success of McSweeneys, and Cory Doctorow’s “give freely and they will buy” business strategy.

Doctorow really has his head straight. It seems ludicrous, but showing generosity towards your readers, giving them clips and “free stuff,” really does, in the long run, get you further than staying secretive about your work. That’s why, today, I’m posting not one, but TWO pages of work.

Comments, as always, are appreciated.