Re: Twin calcudoku 20 april 2016
pnm wrote:
Yes, could do that (although only a handful of people bought a PDF so far).
Maybe some subscribers
haven't yet noticed, in spite of it now being neatly illustrated on their
book history page, that the puzzles and puzzle codes in the original edition of "102 Large Puzzles" (
available as a PDF download here at a bargain, only $4.95!) and the original edition of "201 Tricky Puzzles" (formerly available through Amazon, now
out of print) are different ones from those in the "Extra" editions of those titles that you
get for free (in PDF format) with a one-year subscription to the site. Or maybe people aren't as "completist" as me when it comes to book puzzles. It may of course also simply be that oldtimers bought the print editions ages ago and newcomers have their hands full with the overwhelming amount of (excellent!) new material such as "121 Advanced Puzzles"
vol II &
vol III, and the 2016 "Calcudoku series":
January,
February,
March,
April ...
pnm wrote:
I could maybe instead re-release the books via "createspace" (so printed again).
eclipsegirl wrote:
I encourage you to find a way to release unavailable books.
I have purchased what I could through PDFs.
I would also buy it through create space.
I prefer the PDF because the puzzle comes out on 8 x 11 page
I agree with eclipsegirl that it would be nice to have all titles still available, if that is possible. I prefer PDF too because it saves space on my bookshelf and I can just bring a print of a few puzzles (two to a page, if I like) with me on a trip rather than the whole book. Also, not knowing the ins and outs of self-publishing, I thought that maybe the cost and effort of making a PDF out of existing material (which, I admit, probably won't sell in large numbers) would be less than that of preparing it for a new print run?
At any rate, if you are the one making a title
available through your own website, you won't ever have to worry about that particular title again in terms of dealing with a publisher, deciding whether to reprint if it becomes unavailable, or responding to pesky puzzlers nagging you for access to it
On another note, I'm really getting hooked on book puzzles in general!
For some reason, many of them come across as more "hand-crafted" (elegantly composed, illustrative of particular themes or ideas) than the ones on the website, and it is nice not to be tempted to press "Save for later" if you get stuck and do trial and error from that point, as is the case if you're puzzling online and eager to manage the day's "quota".