Austin Climbing guidebook

Austin Climbing guidebook This book covers DWS and sport climbing in party town Austin Texas. Click See www.AustinClimbingBook.com for ordering info, sample pages, etc.

Its graphics, details and amusing local history are considered the new standard for climbing guides. See www.AustinClimbingBook.com for the online store and sample pages. The convenience and intricacy of these limestone routes and the fun, party city guarantee you great climbing trips here.

11/21/2023

I've sold 45% of the 4th edition print run to retailers! The print run was 1500 books. Repeat orders were happening, filling pent-up demand. Now orders have paused and demand is probably back to normal.

How is the book so far? Is the cover surviving back packs better, worse, or the same as before?

Any errors in the text?

Thanks!!

Finally! I'm taking orders from retailers (gear shops, climbing gyms, high literature book stores). I've reached out to ...
10/11/2023

Finally! I'm taking orders from retailers (gear shops, climbing gyms, high literature book stores). I've reached out to past retailers, but in some cases buyers have switched jobs and I've not yet reached all of them. This post attempts to reach some of them through word-of-mouth.

Retailers reach me at [email protected].

Yesterday's first retailer order was from legendary gear shop Rock and Snow in New York State! Somehow he sells copies. He makes multiple orders per year. God knows how.

I'm not taking online orders yet. 4th Edition has FEW changes from 3rd. It could have been "3rd Edition 2nd Printing". Here's new stuff I can recall:

$44.95 (up from $39.95). Inflation. Thanks, OBAMA!!

Eggplant cover. But it's dark eggplant, not real pretty like this image is.

Monster Rock route numbering is corrected.

A few topo photos were chopped at the top, hiding route numbers. Corrected.

I think 5 new routes, 3 of them bandit-bolted (don't do that).
Carnival Wall now includes both the diagonal traverse and all the routes that start on that big ledge. Please read about the reasons besides a wall with only 1 route right next to another wall makes little sense.

This edition was printed in sweet Austin Texas by Capital Printing. They're good. The page cuts are more precise than ever. You can see this by closing the book and examining the colored tabs used to help locate each climbing area. Buy local.

Thank you all for your continued business! Climbing guidebooks and t-shirts are about the only unique gear/art that represents a climbing area. They're a keepsake and a reminder of fun times. Please buy them for your fav road trips.

If I procrastinate on future re-printings, please don't be polite. Get in my face. Remind me that keeping the ball rolling is easier than dropping it and picking it up years later. Thanks!

See you at the crag!! Well, maybe not. Find me wargaming at Dragon's Lair.

Regards,
--John

04/01/2023

I needed incentive to get the book back in print. I kept being too lazy to tackle the chore. Actually started it and found a local print company but stalled during edits. After a few months I encountered a virtual reality specialist. We are collaborating on a VR version of Austin Climbing, 4th edition. Stay tuned!

05/26/2022

My print company's price on the next printing is up over 50%. No one's surprised (inflation). if that were the only cost, it would drive me to increase price from $39.95 to roughly $59.95.

Also, the print company's lead time is 6 months!! I might look for alternative bids, but Bang has always beat other bids by a lot, and few US print companies are "real book" printers. Bang can handle the stitched binding, while all the glued bindings can and have failed.

So I expect availability for Austin Climbing will dry up this summer as retailers run out of inventory. And the price will be much higher. This serves as a heads up--please get word out to partners who most want the book. They should grab the retailers' current copies or order my last few books online.

You will see MANY guidebooks for other areas at reasonable prices for a long time, because we tend to make big print runs, we've already paid for the books, and the bar codes are at that reasonable price unless the publisher raises price and sticks a new barcode over them.

Those like me who sell out and reprint are struck dealing with the higher print and freight costs. A possible example is my ol pal Arkansas, a book I've used as a comp over the years. They're already over $50. https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Climbing-Arkansas-Cole-Fennel/dp/0989515664

We live in interesting times. Sorry about that...

10 Years ago my guidebook hit the stores! First edition was blue, Second edition orange, Third (current) edition black. ...
04/12/2022

10 Years ago my guidebook hit the stores! First edition was blue, Second edition orange, Third (current) edition black. Not much has changed since 3rd ed came out, so I expect to just put out a 2nd printing.

I picked a black cover because Prototype Wall fell down. But then the Pandemic hit, people were dying, not much was know about what to do or how bad the economy would be hit. My retailers were temporarily closing shop. The black took on new meaning.

I have no clue how much I will have to price this next printing, as inflation hits different industries differently. Black still fits. Or maybe dollar-green. Or maybe, as we're in proxy WW3...Ukraine flag.

Next printing will be the 5th printing cycle, each cycle involving taking print company bids, calculating the new book price, editing the source file, adjusting problems the print company might find in that file, and taking shipment of a bunch of books. Mostly I still enjoy the work and order fulfillment. I greatly appreciate my customers and retailers. And I greatly appreciate Bang Print Company (Minnesota) for (so far) great pricing and a real (Encyclopedia style) stitched binding.

02/27/2022

I’m almost ten years old. Time flies

04/06/2021

Well THIS is creepy. I have 666 books left in inventory. Maybe someone should order ASAP.

The book is once again available at www.austinclimbingbook.com I had to suspend sales while sick with Covid. My case wa...
03/01/2021

The book is once again available at www.austinclimbingbook.com I had to suspend sales while sick with Covid. My case was mild, but I was isolated away from my inventory & computer. If you know any people who were trying to order, please let them know about it.

(Not me in the photo.) As for covid...isolation while sick is no fun. 14 days of sick, another couple weeks in covid jail to protect my family. To give you a sense of the level of boredom and not wanting to search for movies or read, I watched 6 fat seasons of The Vikings. I think that's 80 episodes of not really great TV. However I also watched all of The Expanse, which was pretty dang good sci fi. I'm fortunate having a mild case.

12/19/2020

Dec 23 is Festivus. Go climb Festivus, for the Rest of Us! Insanity Wall, North Shore.

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