Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Important 3Jack E-Book Announcement

I am pleased to announce that I am almost finished with my e-book, 2012 Pro Golf Synopsis, a look at using advanced statistical analysis towards the game and the PGA Tour.

Initially, I had planned to charge $12.95 for a purchase of the e-book, in a .pdf file. But after much consideration, I have decided that I will be giving the e-book away for free for this year.

While I'm quite pleased with the progress I've made so far, I would like to get the book finished before the first tournament of the PGA Tour season (January 6th - Hyundai Tournament of Champions).

Pro Golf Synopsis will be a bit lengthy and thus it will require a lot of editing and while I had offers for free editing services, I don't want to burden those people with so much editing work and wanting them to do it in such a short period of time.

Furthermore, I have some ideas as to how I want the Pro Golf Synopsis to look in the future and I cannot do it for this past season because I didn't start my statistical research until about May of this year.

All in all, I just feel that there is too large of a learning curve for the initial 'offering' of the e-book and I didn't want to charge readers for that.

What I will probably do is put a 'PayPal Donation' tag on the blog and those who would like to contribute money for my effort, can feel free to do so.

In the end, I feel this is the best route to take as I can make alterations to the e-book based on feedback and other ideas I have in mind and then charge a fee for the e-book.

In the meantime, if somebody has a Web site where I could host the 2012 Pro Golf Synopsis file for free downloads, please let me know. I can be PM'd on the forum or e-mailed at Richie3Jack@yahoo.com

In the meantime, enjoy this rare Ben Hogan swing video that I recently spotted on YouTube.












3JACK

1 comment:

MattF said...

For free downloads :
You could host the 2012 Pro Golf Synopsis file on issuu :

http://issuu.com/

For example, some Yardage books :

http://issuu.com/tpcnetwork/docs/tpc-louisiana-yardagebook?mode=embed&pageNumber=undefined

Really simple to use...

Or you could use Scribd :

http://www.scribd.com/

I prefer Issuu but Scribd is pretty cool too

Thank you for your really interesting Blog.

Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.