hail to the victors: the book

A few updates on the status of this year's book.

BUY BUY BUY

So if you want to read HTTV 2023 you can do so right now:

THE DIGITAL EDITION is $15 from our store. All of that goes to us. This is a PDF version (with no DRM) of the print copy. If you're unable to download your copy, you can email me. If you already purchased but are super-duper ornery about having the absolute last version of it, check that you have version 1.3 and if not you can also email me. If you don't know how to check your version you are not super duper ornery (but it's in Document Properties/Custom).

THE KINDLE EDITION is now available from Amazon for $9.93, which works out to $6.00 that we keep. This edition has slightly longer articles because I didn't have to cut them for space—this is only substantially different for the Roundtable and Scott Bell's article had a section that we had to lose. If you have a different e-reader you can email me and we can work something out, but I can't seem to make tables look right on an EPUB. I know people want iBooks but it's too hard to work with Apple and they take so much off the top it's not really worthwhile for publishers.

THE SHIRT is now available from our store since a lot of you were asking if you could get more than one with your order, or order the shirt and a digital copy without taking a print one. If you did the pre-order your shirt will come when we have your book in stock; there's no such wait if you just order the shirt on its own. For the people who asked why the plays are in a weird order, it just looked bad when I had plays 1 and 2 on the left.

PRINT COPIES

THE PRINT INTEREST LIST (Printerest List?) We are still trying to get more copies printed, and thus far have scrounged up enough material for 2200 copies, which was 200 more than we had a few weeks ago. Now, this is a Real number, not the Safe number I usually put out to account for Things That Can Happen. Once we have the books in our warehouse, which will be around July 25, we will be past most of the Things That Can Happen and we'll sell whatever's left.

I have created an interest list on Google Forms where you can let us know to contact you as soon as those go on sale. Getting on the list does not mean you *have* to buy a print copy; it means you want to get an email from me when you can. That's the only thing I'll use it for. If you reached out to me before, I sent you an invitation to join the list.

PRINT COPIES OF OLD BOOKS

I sold my last (damaged) 2016 and 2017 but I still have a good number of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2015, and 2014 Hail to Hoops & Hockey books left (and 2014 PSU books). I have digital (PDF) versions of everything back to 2012. Selling print back issues for $20 apiece and digital for $10. Just email me if you're interested. Planning on a big run to the post office early next week.

TO THINE INBOXEN: Today we put the finishing touches on the annual preview and feature book, which means the program can now release updated rosters, the world of NIL can go lurch into its next major phase that nobody saw coming, and every opponent can find a game-changing transfer in the portal.

DIGITAL COPIES (PDF): Are NOW ON SALE. If you bought the pre-sale package your specified email should have that right now. If you didn't, you can go buy one here and get reading.

PRE-SALE PEOPLE THANK YOU! We had 1,890 people participate in the pre-sale, raising $113,852.80. Shipping is a huge chunk of that, but the rest is more than enough capital to pay our printer and writers. Thank you so very much. Your digital copies should be in your email *RIGHT NOW* (look for an email from me called "Hail to the Victors 2023: Your Digital Copy"). Your print copies and your t-shirts will be shipped together once we have the print copies. Mailing this many takes us several weeks once we have the books but you should expect stuff to be arriving by early August, and start shaking me down if it hasn't come by mid-August. Everything is going out from the UGP warehouse in Ypsilanti, and we should have tracking of individual orders. Keep in mind that the printer just got the files, the plates haven't been made, and everyone is on vacation right now so things will go a bit slowly.

PRINT COPIES: TRYING TO GET MORE. I have enough books to cover presales but at the moment not many more. Due to a national paper shortage—especially for the higher quality stuff we use—I could only secure enough for 2,000 copies, and when I've taken care of the writers that leaves us at less than a hundred. If the printer can scrounge up more paper we'll put print copies in the store; this conversation has to wait until after July 4 so I don't know if it's possible. If you messaged me about this before, I'll prioritize you for the few I'll have left. If you message me now I cannot.

E-BOOK VERSION: COMING. If you prefer to read on Kindle and can be a little patient, I am producing a version for that, but it takes me about a week or two to convert, and it takes Amazon another week to press a button and make it live. I've tried to do iBooks in the past but Apple is too hard to work with, sorry. If you have a different kind of e-reader, you can e-mail me and we can work something out.

T-SHIRT: WILL BE IN THE STORE. For those of you who asked if you can order 20 copies of this year's shirt, the answer is yes. Give me until after the holiday because I don't want to put too many people out in the last 10 minutes before the holiday.

BACK ISSUES AVAILABLE: I have (limited) copies of our 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 (1 left), 2016 (2 left, both a bit damaged), 2015, and the Hoops & Hockey book we did in 2013 for $20/each if you want to complete your collection. There's also a PSU book from 2014 when I tried to expand to them. Email me with what you're looking for, but be patient because I handle this year's business first.

There was never any doubt. I know you all got nervous there for a second, when it looked like the season was quickly approaching and your preview wasn't going to make it in time. I won't lie, there was a lot of ground to make up. But we're racing to get there—we're going to get there—and it's going to be as spectacular as…as…

…as this magazine and shirt THAT YOU CAN PRE-ORDER TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. Click the link. Or this link. Not this link. THIS link.

PRE-ORDER: COMES WITH A SHIRT

Shirt detail

Since it worked for us last year, we're going to avoid Kickstarter again and fund this through a pre-sale, which comes with a guaranteed print copy, a digital version of the same as soon as the print version goes to the printer, and this year's t-shirt, which is full of helpful driving tips if you ever needed to drive across Ohio (details below).

• The Digital Magazine will be emailed to you within 48 hrs after the book is approved for printing. It is a PDF with no DRM on it so you can share it across your devices.
• The Limited Edition T-shirt will come with your hardy copy of the magazine as soon as they're in.
• The Limited Edition Physical Magazine will come with your shirt.

We expect to have the books in hand by mid-July, and in yours by August.

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