Would you buy this?

[enwiabe]

You could sell some electronic copies first..

You can trust the upright members of VN not to share, right  

Hahahaha, releasing an electronic copy would be the dumbest move I could make

I mean, it's not like there's any copyrighted material floating around the forum..

I'm not aware of such files. I can't see every post, unfortunately You'll have to point them out to me and they'll be deleted immediately!

Make an electronic copy, save it as a word doc.
Then as someone make's an order to purchase one, type their name/code in the footer kind of like Derrick Ha, so that if one is found to be redistributed, you will know who it is?

I don't want to sue 17 year old kids. I'd much rather just have a version of it that can't be easily pirated.

[nbalakers24]

You could sell some electronic copies first..

You can trust the upright members of VN not to share, right 

Hahahaha, releasing an electronic copy would be the dumbest move I could make

I mean, it's not like there's any copyrighted material floating around the forum..

I'm not aware of such files. I can't see every post, unfortunately You'll have to point them out to me and they'll be deleted immediately!

Make an electronic copy, save it as a word doc.
Then as someone make's an order to purchase one, type their name/code in the footer kind of like Derrick Ha, so that if one is found to be redistributed, you will know who it is?

thats a good idea but it can be easily removed

[luken93]

Embed within the file, a virus that remains dormant until called upon

Feasibly could be released on Kindle? Does anybody know if Kindle books can get hacked out of their licensing easily?

EDIT: Without a virus, obviously.

Just looked on a *cough legal *cough website, and yes, it is possible to redist kindle books

[m@tty]

I don't want to sue 17 year old kids.

You'd much rather take all of their money legitimately. Saves you all the extra work.

EDIT:
Was going to say something about you being Jewish, but that'd be racist

[enwiabe]

Better way of doing that btw would be to watermark a massive version of their name in light grey on every page into a PDF

[enwiabe]

^ You'd much rather take all of their money legitimately. Saves you all the extra work.
EDIT:
Was going to say something about you being Jewish, but that'd be racist

If $40 is all of somebody's money, they have far more pressing matters than studying for Methods

[m@tty]

Methods + Spesh + XLL .. the list goes on.

Eventually you'll end up with all of their money, somehow.

EDIT: Going back to the topic; best bet is just not to make an electronic copy. (Except give one to me.)

[enwiabe]

Methods + Spesh + XLL .. the list goes on.

Eventually you'll end up with all of their money, somehow.

I ended up with no money from XLL. It was a good business lesson though. There should be a lot more preparation before you start accepting money from people -_-. In the case of XLL, we should have marketed it for longer and had a bigger class size to start off with. In the case of this book, not even going to open up online orders until it's 100% finished and actually printed.

[m@tty]

Methods + Spesh + XLL .. the list goes on.

Eventually you'll end up with all of their money, somehow.

I ended up with no money from XLL. It was a good business lesson though. There should be a lot more preparation before you start accepting money from people -_-. In the case of XLL, we should have marketed it for longer and had a bigger class size to start off with. In the case of this book, not even going to open up online orders until it's 100% finished and actually printed.

And minimal students enrolling and tutors walking out is not a good sign. Weren't you going to try and get it up againn ext year?

[InitialDRulz]

Considering you have a crapload of topic tests and a very mean solutions (by that i mean so tank that i would honestly jump on it just to make babies), $40 to me is very cheap.

I only own Checkpoints, A+ notes and Exambusters for my Maths Methods when i did my Year 12 (this year), and i'd like to say that I didn't even touch Exambusters as it didn't even appeal to me... yeah it did show the tricks and stuff, but i could have just picked that up with my A+ notes. what a waste of money in my opinion.

If you are intending on making trial exams, don't make it over the top like Kilbaha 2010, cause that was a real mind fudge. Maybe you could have like a topic test that is in the intermediates level, but have an advanced right after it for students who really kill the exams. Or maybe even release two seperate books, one for people who are just aiming for 30, or people who want to aim very high!

The only problem however is you'll need someone to check over the solutions (cause companies tend to make errors). Derrick's book also had errors, and you don't want to distribute a book full of Errors (Checkpoints Methods 2010).

Nonetheless, good idea =)

[enwiabe]

Methods + Spesh + XLL .. the list goes on.

Eventually you'll end up with all of their money, somehow.

I ended up with no money from XLL. It was a good business lesson though. There should be a lot more preparation before you start accepting money from people -_-. In the case of XLL, we should have marketed it for longer and had a bigger class size to start off with. In the case of this book, not even going to open up online orders until it's 100% finished and actually printed.

And minimal students enrolling and tutors walking out is not a good sign. Weren't you going to try and get it up againn ext year?

Nah not anymore. I have no motivation to go through it all again. I think I'm far better off writing this book because I honestly think it's going to be the best study resource on the market (behind the textbooks, obviously).

[m@tty]

Oh, ok.

You could, after you make your name common knowledge throughout schools in Victoria, enter competition with Derrick Ha in revision lectures. I'm sure once your book takes off students would be willing to go to a lecture as well.

[enwiabe]

Considering you have a crapload of topic tests and a very mean solutions (by that i mean so tank that i would honestly jump on it just to make babies), $40 to me is very cheap.

I only own Checkpoints, A+ notes and Exambusters for my Maths Methods when i did my Year 12 (this year), and i'd like to say that I didn't even touch Exambusters as it didn't even appeal to me... yeah it did show the tricks and stuff, but i could have just picked that up with my A+ notes. what a waste of money in my opinion.

If you are intending on making trial exams, don't make it over the top like Kilbaha 2010, cause that was a real mind fudge. Maybe you could have like a topic test that is in the intermediates level, but have an advanced right after it for students who really kill the exams. Or maybe even release two seperate books, one for people who are just aiming for 30, or people who want to aim very high!

The only problem however is you'll need someone to check over the solutions (cause companies tend to make errors). Derrick's book also had errors, and you don't want to distribute a book full of Errors (Checkpoints Methods 2010).

Nonetheless, good idea =)

I know several highly intelligent people who would gladly help to proof it

Thank you for pointing this out though. My spec solutions went thru several edits before arriving at the complete picture (I was rushing on the day so missed a few smaller, and one or two big things).

As for difficulty. I might even have a rating system going for each question out of 5 stars. 5 being the hardest, and then to keep parity between exams I will ensure that the equation:

for exam 1, and for exam 2

Where is the rating of the i'th question, and is the number of marks the i'th question is worth.

(that is, every mark has an average of 3 stars of rating)

[jayna]

try and set up a deal with a big name tutor like Jack or derrik ha. Sell ur book thru them. Coz if jack says to his students to buy it to get 40+... Mate they will. U sell thru him and give some profit to him. Then word will get out about ur book thru students. Imo thats the best way to market ur book. Good luck!

[nbalakers24]

what happened to XLL? i thought it were succesfull :S