Book Of The Machine Available

[Secret Master]

The print version of Book Of the Machine is now available.

[handleyj]

Awesome! Is there going to be a bundle of the print book and the PDF? Does such a bundle usually go on sale at the same time that the print book is released, or is it a "months later" type of date?

Thanks!

[Steve Long]

We'll create a bundle like usual, but we want to wait until we actually have the books in hand, or at least a reliable report on when we will. Dealing with Customs can be tricky.

[handleyj]

Sweet! I'll buy the bundle as soon as it's posted. Thanks, Steve!

[Blue]

Not sure if my endorsement will matter to anyone, but I picked up the Bundle and the hardcopy arrived yesterday. More Mechanon badness than I will ever possibly be able to use, but man I love having options.

The layout is great. As usual, any thing that tells you where the chapters break is a good thing and in this case the breaks are obvious on the edge of the paper when the book is closed. I wasn't sure color interior art would matter all that much to me, being and old school hero fan, but it's a nice step up. The book seems well bound (don't you love that new book smell when you fan the pages? [takes a whiff]).

I hope this test balloon prodcut produced by this printer was up to the company satisfaction because I'd love to have 6e books come out like this.

[Lord Liaden]

I hope this test balloon prodcut produced by this printer was up to the company satisfaction because I'd love to have 6e books come out like this.

That's something I was curious about, given the recent Lucha Libre HERO printing fiasco. Did the majority of the hardcopy books arrive in satisfactory condition?

[ghost-angel]

They came from two completely different printers.

Book Of The Machine was printed in China.
Lucha Libre was printed in Canada.

[Lord Liaden]

Which doesn't invalidate my question.

Never-before-used printer = won't know 'til they get here, as Steve and Darren remarked more than once.

[ghost-angel]

Well, since they arrived, and no one said anything... I'd assume they all arrived safely.

[Lord Liaden]

You'd make a terrible conspiracy theorist.

[ghost-angel]

The government is making me say these things....

[Darren Watts]

I'm still waiting for my non-advance copies to make it out here, but Jason sez they look fine, and the Cryptic guys sounded very happy with theirs. Except for the customs delay (which was largely out of their control- they could have communicated a couple of things quicker, but we think we've solved that), we're so far very happy with this printer, and we've given them the 6E contract. dw

[hawkfu]

Hello,

I received the book yesterday - it looks beautiful! I love the design of the book and I can't wait to dig into the (considerable) content. The art is fantastic too. Thanks!

[ghost-angel]

Yeah, gotta say - I didn't see that origin coming At All. nice work Steve. Very nice work.

[Steve Long]

Well, hopefully most folx will agree with your assessment. There's nothing new under the sun, as they say, but I tried to come up with something not quite so predictable.