I preordered the book directly form Pinball Adventures and was quite disappointed upon receipt. Normally, I would keep comments like this to myself...HOWEVER,
Quoted from PinballBuzz:that book paper we used was the most common standard paper used in most books printed in America.
This statement could not be farther from the truth. The paper stock was see-through thin. Not only that, but whoever packed my book into the mailer managed to let the adhesive on the flap closure grab the page edges when they jammed it in the envelope and I ended up with glue residue all over my the pages which had to be carefully picked off. Had the paper not been such a low grade this would not have been as big an issue.
The number of typos and clear grammatical errors struck me as less than professional, and I immediately thought, "who edited this thing".
Quoted from PinballBuzz:We are not doing this as a full time job, but as an extra to help the pinball community.
The fact that you position your offerings as a "help" to this community is preposterous. You were trying to make a profit on the huge audience enjoyed by Todd and company and produced a substandard product despite having a key player in the community contribute and charging a premium price.
If you want to see what "helping" the community looks like, go to some tech threads and see what people like @vid1900, @quench, terryb bring to the table...
This book really disappointed me (and it sounds like others) and the way that you have openly attacked Todd (regardless of whatever went down) smacks of unprofessionalism and has no doubt already had an impact on future sales.
Good luck turning things around.
