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At TED2013, Amanda Palmer gave a talk called "The art of asking" about her experience funding an album on Kickstarter; it quickly went viral on TED.com.

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Amanda Palmer’s new book grew out of a simple fact: that she couldn’t cram every relevant story into her 14-minute TED Talk.

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