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Title: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by jshriver on Nov 17th, 2013, 12:41am Is the PDF still available somewhere? When I went to the page it auto forwards to the amazon page. I did buy the book, but a pdf would be nice so I could load it on my Kindle. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Fritzlein on Nov 17th, 2013, 9:41am If I remember correctly, Jean wanted the PDF to be available for download in perpetuity, Omar didn't want it to be available at all, and they compromised by making it available for a finite time. But don't rely on my memory; Jean and Omar would be the ones who know. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by marcom on Feb 18th, 2014, 7:30am I'd like to buy the ebook, it's a pity it's not possible :( |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by chessandgo on Feb 18th, 2014, 4:24pm If you'd like that the pdf be made available, I'd suggest you contact Omar at arimaa_game@yahoo.com |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Ail on Feb 25th, 2014, 5:40am I've been trying to get the book but shipping from the US costs more than the book itself and I couldn't find it anywhere else. :-/ Why does Omar decide about the availability of the PDF and not the author of the book? |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Fritzlein on Feb 25th, 2014, 8:52am on 02/25/14 at 05:40:50, Ail wrote:
The book is print on demand, so this can be easily remedied. It is a matter of checking a couple of boxes in the distribution channels to allow Amazon EU and Amazon UK to sell it, and to choose a price in pounds and euros. It's pretty silly to print in the US and fly it overseas instead of printing it out locally and shipping by ground. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Ail on Feb 25th, 2014, 9:55am It isn't listed in Amazon.de so I tried Amazon.com. Will try Amazon.uk, since that's closer and thus probably cheaper to ship. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by chessandgo on Feb 25th, 2014, 11:35am Do you mean that I can make it available on amazon.eu Fritz? |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Fritzlein on Feb 25th, 2014, 11:52am on 02/25/14 at 11:35:01, chessandgo wrote:
I think so. You published through CreateSpace, like I did for Beginning Arimaa, right? On the Member Dashboard when I log in to CreateSpace, I click on the book title to get to the Project Homepage, where it has a sequence of steps Create > Setup > Review > Distribute > Sales & Marketing. In the Distribute tab there is a Channels link, which allows you (or at least allowed me) to select Amazon Europe as a channel. That option wasn't available when I first published, which baffled me, but at some point I got an alert about it. My recollection is that the only hoop I had to jump through was picking a list price; after that the sales just started trickling in automatically. Hopefully it will be as easy for you. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Ail on Feb 25th, 2014, 5:19pm on 02/25/14 at 11:35:01, chessandgo wrote:
Do it! :D |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by chessandgo on Feb 26th, 2014, 9:37am Thanks a lot Fritz! Arimaa Strategies and Tactics will be available on amazon.eu and .uk within a week, at 8 euros, or £7.05. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Ail on Feb 27th, 2014, 1:14pm Great news! It now is available on amazon.de! |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Fritzlein on Feb 27th, 2014, 3:30pm on 02/27/14 at 13:14:38, Ail wrote:
After you read it, Ail, I urge you to consider writing a review for Amazon.de. I believe that for my book there are no reviews except the ones you can borrow from Amazon.com; a German-language review would be awesome. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by chessandgo on Feb 27th, 2014, 3:59pm Nice, it seems available in all european national amazon websites. A search of arimaa on amazon.fr yields interesting results. I'm first, yay (sorry Fritz ^^), and there's obviously Beginning Arimaa, but there are also: http://www.amazon.fr/Arimaa-Noelene-Aoide/dp/6139332559/ (huh? What's that?) ... and a ton of books with subtitles listing several games including arimaa in different languages ... all with a flower on the cover. Huh? Source wikipedia? By Mr and Ms wikipedia? |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by supersamu on Feb 27th, 2014, 6:56pm Interesting. I already have your book, I think I payed a bit more for it. What I found is the following: (searching on amazon.fr) "The Indispensable Gaming Guide", a book which reviews some boardgames, including Arimaa. (The author gives Arimaa 4 out of 5 stars, you can read the review as free preview) I also found papers of conference reports. The "book" which you were linking has a german cover, but I couldn't find it on amazon.de It says in the bottom-right corner: "Up-to-date. This book uses Wikipedia as source". I have no idea what is in the books with the flowers as covers. |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Fritzlein on Feb 27th, 2014, 7:20pm Is someone perhaps offering to print the Arimaa Wikibook for us? |
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Title: Re: Arimaa Strategies and Tactics Post by Ail on Mar 4th, 2014, 8:27am on 02/27/14 at 15:30:32, Fritzlein wrote:
It arrived yesterday and I read about half an hour of it before becoming too sleepy. I sure will review it once I'm through or at least a bit further. The book already managed to increase my urge to play Arimaa even more because I now kinda know the basic principle of what I should do in all those situations where before I just thought like: "I maybe should advance something somewhere" Sharp, while seemingly not so keen about this, still handles me on Level 8 of the phone-app because he makes the game become tactical really quickly and I don't have the time to execute all those long-term plans before I have to react. He better be prepared once I reach the tactical-part of the book! ^^ |
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