How about NOT writing a puzzle book, BUT...?

[RKB]

... publishing a woodworker/craftsman oriented puzzle magazine?

The advantages over a book:
- Shorter production time (2 or 3 issues a year).
- More actual / State of the art.
- Cost efficiency: the number of subscribers is known... what you print is already sold.
- The scope of the articles can be broader (an occasionally wire puzzle, wooden locks, etc...).
- Extra funds possible from publishing ads.
...

After a quick calculation I think it may well be possible to have 3 issues per year (about 32 pages each + covers, all full color on glossy paper) for a subscription fee of $50 - $60. That is if we can get 300 - 400 subscribers and do all the editing and pre press work ourselves.

[Canuck]

Very interesting idea...

[Chinnomotto]

Maybe call it "SHOW N TELL - PUZZLERS OF THE WORLD"   by world famous artists like Chinnomotto   >:)and other unknowns

[Canuck]

 

[Skiprat]

Sounds like a very cool idea and I'd subscribe. But have you thought about doing a paperless online mag? I have no idea how it would work payment wise, but it must be possible. You could have the cover page and the contents page as teasers and payment required to get the whole mag. Makes it world wide too.
Online books that I have seen, can't be printed or forwarded to someone else either.

[Trooper]

Hmmm, a puzzle mag eh?  Count me in!!! I'd subscribe. 

[Roby]

This also is a good idea.  The neat thing is that as long as we all all startiing to put together items for print, we still have time to decide which direction to go.

[mike toulouzas]

not bad idea but it frightens me a little cause a magazine has to come out and allways stay tuned.And the subscribers .....it needs are too many