In order to keep our store attractive, services are being expanded to ship more often, offer more third party products and courier express.
The Blender E-store still is the main income source for Blender Foundation, allowing to organize projects in Blender Institute and to hire people for work on Blender (currently 3 developers and myself full-time).
Customers expect from a modern internet store more services than we provided until now though; especially doing faster and more often shipments. To achieve this, we need to expand our product catalog to get a bit higher volumes per shipment.
Per January 1st 2012 we now rent a second small office and storage in the south of Netherlands (Budel) where our shop manager Anja Vugts-Verstappen will be handling the orders, shipping and daily shop support.
Summarized, changes will be:
http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/default_dvds.php
Publishers interested to resell via our e-store as well can contact me any time!
-Ton-
(ton at blender.org)