Re: Review: Winning in Tough Hold \'em Games by Stox/Zobags
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1. Start each hand at the top of its own page. this makes the action easier to follow and leaves room at the bottom for notes. Since this book should be viewed more like a text book/reference material it would be great to have room to make notations, and this is most apparent in the quiz section.
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We're concious of page count. Not only is more pages more expensive to produce, we can begin to introduce binding and shipping problems if the page count gets too high.
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2. How much would it cost to have the suits colored? Especially with this book being geared toward online players it would be a much easier read if the suits were in the standard 4 color deck setup. I personally identify flushes more by color than shape nowadays (god help me when i play live) and i think a lot of other online players would agree.
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Four color process is much more expensive. In addition, to keep costs down we often "gang" several books together. So if we went to one book in four color process they would now all be that way even if they have no other colors in them.
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If these two suggestions are two expensive how about offering a regular and a "student" version which would have more room for notes,/an easier format for an extra $10.
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This creates many problems for us. First, short printing runs are much more expensive per unit. Second, you create another new manuscript to typeset, edit, and proofread. This would hold up other projects. And third, you would create confusion among buyers. Simply put, we just don't have this capability in our small company.
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Distribute the charts as a file to anyone who buys the book (or buys through conjelco), lots of good info in them, but they are so much harder to read in the size and format they are in, scanning and enlarging is a lower quality option and i would much prefer to have an electronic copy.
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The charts are the size they are so that they would fit in the book and not take up too much space. We could have laid them out "landscape" instead of "portrait" (or put them sideways) but that would have driven the page count up significantly.
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Fourth: i still have no confidence in the bindings of these books.
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Then I suggest you form your own publishing company and do a better job.
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