New books download

We're working on the downloads right now and the plan is to have at least Tokoharu up by the end of today. The delay was entirely my fault, we do a few final QC passes on the whole book and mine was late due to having a lot going on the past week or two. I am the type of person that wants to do the final pass on everything we put out before it goes live, and in this situation that resulted in the delay. (This is also why we haven't announced the winners from the Onahole contest) Daiz is actually here from Finland and is working in the office with us this week, he does the encoding of the actual downloads. Additionally we'll be re-releasing the original downloads of Renai Sample and PuniKano, we made some improvements to the overall process and the quality will be going up pretty substantially.

There is no excuse for the delay, my original plan was to have the downloads out one week after December 31st and that was a week ago. All I can do is apologize and thank you for being patient, it was my fault these weren't out earlier.

While I don't agree with a lot of what Xeiros has said or the tone of his post, I do understand his frustration.
I might not hate the online reader anymore now that I can scroll properly with it but it's still miles from the experience of CDisplay, MangaMeeya or whatever you use to read on your computer.
The mobile support is also not that great and unless you have a modern android or iOS device it will barely even work. Not to mention the battery consumption. Only possible solution for this would be an app but thanks to the no porn policy of the app stores android users would have to download and get updates from the app manually and iOS users would have to jailbreak their phones.
Anyway, my suggestion for the future, if you continue to release books like this, would be at least offering a download version of the same images from the reader as the chapters are being released.

I agree with your remark

My view on it is if I was ordering something off of a site with a pre-established business plan, which has been doing business for a while then yeah I expect good service. They already have their foot in the door and have been through the ringer so to expect any less is ridiculous.

From something like this or other small/starting up businesses, I am a bit more lax because it isn't easy to start up something like this. I wouldn't say I'm happy to hear something I've put money into is delayed, but as long as I know why it is delayed then I'm fine to wait for the product. Another reason I couldn't complain is because of the product itself; seriously it is porn and it was not expensive. Yes I know that you want good service for anything you buy, but I'll be more upset if the stethoscope I bought for work was pushed back versus a porn book. Just a matter of priority really.

In the end we've received information on why there are delays and Jake + the team have been very kind about all of this. All you can really say is "were doing our best and I/we apologize". If the product wasn't going to be released we would have gotten our money back already. Besides that some of the issues wasn't there fault, I mean you going to go swim out into the frickin ocean to go and stear a cargo ship to port and wave your Hairy Potter wand to get everything through customs? The time this all happened was just bad luck/timing.

I have to say in the end the product was worth the wait, you can see how much love and detail went into it and I'll definitely buy more in due time. Believe me, this is nothing from the shit I've gotten from some previous online purchases elsewhere so I can't complain. May get impatient, but cannot complain.

Downloads for Welcome to Tokoharu Apartments are now online, Alluring Woman should be online tomorrow.

https://www.fakku.net/manga/welcome-to-tokoharu-apartments-english/download

Dang you're working late. Thanks for the update!

Sleep is for the weak.

Or in my case i want to finish this game where i rape monster to regain my energy bar.

Rather than bashing him, I believe it's a lot better to just give suggestions to Fakku... He has every right to be angry as this is not the first time they were late on their promises. What Jacob needs to do to please everyone is just not make promises they can't keep; give themselves more time by announcing later than estimated release dates.

I agree, they won't always be able to keep their promises 100% of the time, but the amount of times they have already broken their promises is unacceptable. Thankfully, most of the community is willing to forgive them as they are just starting out as publishers. The releases so far have been beyond many expectations and not to mention, Jacob has even given us Fakku Gold for a while as compensation for being late on Renai Sample.

I think Fakku is doing a good job right now, but if they keep going on like this, their credibility will definitely go down and they will seem unprofessional. I am expecting a lot from Fakku and I am looking forward to seeing how they will grow as a company.

Yeah just like I said, I think the "solution" of the problem is simple...
make deadlines for yourself that are actually very EASY to keep and if you are finished quicker, than it even has the positive side-effect that everybody is surprised and extra pleased when something is released quicker than announced.

Thanks for the updates, I know others feel that y'all are braking promises but really the one to me that really matter is about quality which to this point has been solid. As long as that stays the same i don't care how long it takes. rather it be late and be polished then getting something it looks like an amateur worked on it.

When can we be expecting the new downloads for Renai Sample and PuniKano?

Also a little feedback , I also agree on Fakku should start sticking with their release dates and stop this nonsense with releasing chapters in portions. To me it seems better to release the book in full like how you did with Renai Sample and PuniKano.

Cuvie should be up within an hour or two!

Edit: Cuvie download links are now online.

We finalized Gunma and Cuvie yesterday, which is why the links were added today. That's 1½ month since pre-orders started and downloads were made available. For Renai Sample, you got nothing during the pre-order period, and a single chapter for PuniKano. I don't see how that is better than releasing chapters with a few days in-between.

In my opinion, the biggest benefit of doing it the way we did for the December releases is that it gives you the option to leave feedback on the final product. A good example of this is how we changed the jacket for the Gunma book based on forum feedback. Naturally we'll still make corrections if needed later on—like we did for the first two books—but it's much easier to do it before we put together the downloads, which takes a lot of time an effort each time we have to do it.

I definitely agree that we need to be more realistic with the dates we set, but that's a separate issue from the one above.

Can't really speak for everybody but I prefer getting the whole book and downloads for it instead of bits and pieces during an entire month and waiting another 15 days for the downloads.

Again, the options are waiting one month and 15 days with nothing, or waiting one month and 15 days with new chapters every other day, and eventually getting an arguably superior version, since we can fix things along the way. I don't see why you would pick the former.

If you don't want to read the chapters online, you can wait for the downloads and it should be the same experience.

To clarify further...

The books were not completed on December 1st, we were working on them throughout the entire month of December. Instead of making everyone wait until the book was completed (which we did for Renai Sample and PuniKano) we instead released the chapters as we finished them throughout the month (we did this for Peachy-Butt Girls, Welcome to Tokoharu Apartments, and Alluring Woman).

I prefer the chapter by chapter release because it's more in line with what users expect (daily updates) and it allows us to gather feedback over an entire release and catch any mistakes before we issue the final downloads. Additionally it's awesome to have new fap material bringing users to the site each day. If we had done the same thing with our most recent releases that we had done with Renai Sample and PuniKano, you would just be getting the books now. The chapters would have been put online for the first time today.

I've been trying to think about this in the long term, what happens when we have 5 books releasing a month? At that point we could have up to three new chapters released per day. Fully uncensored and with everything you expect from FAKKU Books. I want people to start reading them the moment they are finished, with no delay whatsoever. And thinking even further ahead, what happens if we start simulpublishing magazines? A typical issue of Kairakuten/X-Eros has 12+ chapters in it? Again I'd prefer to read the chapters as soon as humanly possible as they are finished. That said there are definitely situations where we will be releasing a book all at once, which will be the case for one of our next books (one of the unannounced titles).

The fact that we are new to this is a good thing. We get to experiment with brand new distribution methods and see what works and what doesn't. We are not held back by cumbersome platforms or other companies/retailers. We can do this however we want, or more accurately, however you want.

The fact that the downloads were late is a different issue (and again my fault). That shouldn't happen in the future, going forward we'll set exact dates where the full download will be released and we'll include it as part of the release schedule.

Here is what I don't get though, and I have asked this before and got no answer.
Why not have a download version of the same files that are on the reader available as soon as the chapters are released?

Quality control I guess? Any errors in the content can quickly be fixed online but if we download before there was a fix, it's going to stay there. By waiting until the book is complete, they can check over the entire thing and evaluate user reactions to each individual chapter as they're released. By releasing chapters immediately we get a good, but possibly imperfect job very quickly.

Yeah it's mainly a quality control thing, we don't want those to be representative of what the full downloads are like. We're only going to be offering the x2600 and x3200 downloads for now, the reader images are about x1800

But I'm not saying that should be their final version, just that it would make everybody happy.



I don't see how temporary individual chapter files would hurt the quality.