New books download

Since FAKKU Books is still new, I'm pretty lenient when it comes to the kinds of delays we've been experiencing in getting our porn; still, I do understand people's frustration with the delays and everything. Had Fakku already been in the business for a while, then of course I'd be wondering what the deal was with constant delays. Occasional delays aren't problem though, since life happens.

That said, I vastly prefer the way Fakku has been releasing Tokoharu, Alluring Woman, and Peachy, since I get to read the material sooner, and I suspected that this was the reason that Jacob decided to release the books chapter by chapter. Plus, I also prefer a quality release over a crappy one, and it's nice to have something new to read every day (or two, etc. depending how many books are being worked on). Honestly, I hope more releases are done this way, since they give us porn earlier with better QC later on.

Sadly, it looks like it'll be next week before that gets done - some unexpected complications (let me just say that Adobe InDesign has some... issues when it comes to exporting images properly) caused a lot of trouble and it'll still take a while to get everything in place as a result.

Coming from scanlation, people probably think fixing a typo takes 30 seconds, but it can often be 30 minutes from when you see someone reporting the typo to the point where everything is updated. The process is quite painstaking here as well, since the bar it set much higher for our releases. Besides public feedback from the forum or comment sections, we've also internally tweaked and fixed things over the month that were never really announced anywhere, because they were just minor updates. It's more efficient to update the project files (i.e., not the image files you get when you download a book) and reupload an image to the reader, and then do one big export in the end for the whole book.

Every minute spent on this is a minute that could have been spent elsewhere. We probably still could have been working on Renai Sample version 20 at this point, but instead we have five books out. This might be hard to accept—even to us, which is one of the reasons behind delays—but a lot of things take a lot of time. We're still small and have to utilize our resources the best we can, and that means making some sacrifices (not putting up downloads for everything) for the greater good (not hamstringing our productivity).

But x1800 png images still have to be exported for the reader correct? Why not have a 'bot' that creates zip/cbz file with those images for each chapter? That way nobody would have to waste their time.

wondering if it's just me?

is anyone else having trouble downloading...

"[pyon-Kti] PuniKano (x3200).cbz 471MB"


it seems when i download it,it varies in sizes around 200MB and not
the full 471MB,so an error always pops up when i try to open it

What browser and operating system are you using? I'll try to reproduce the issue and get it fixed.

Windows 7 64-bit on mozilla firefox

That's weird, it's working for me here. I'll try to figure out tonight and get it working. Sorry for the issue, it's hard to diagnose network problems like this.

Will Smith taught me not to trust bots in "I, Robot." Also somewhere someone's gonna have to do something. You can't completely automate the process. For instance, you would have to go back and delete those download links for individual chapters once the whole book is released, or keep them updated, which would be a nightmare.

Jacob already touched upon what's gonna happen in the future with more books being released at a faster rate. Then we'd have 18 downloads to add each day, which would eventually need to be removed/updated. Even if we just did the zip/cbz at a single resolution, that's still 6 daily downloads, compared to 6 downloads added once when the book is released.

Finally got it to work,maybe it was something on my end,but i downloaded it like 10+ times. 2nd to last download finished with 400MB and the last was 470MB which i was able to open. Thanks for the quick response though!

I respect what you're saying but I still can't agree with the weekly chapter releases. I still think its best for you guys to release the book in full so we can DL(which we can't do with the weekly release) so we can give feedback. I know you want to release chapters early so you can get edit/suggestion feedback but think of it this way, Beta tester for games don't get a demo to quality check they get a full game to check for bugs and etc etc... If it was for magazine chapters like Jacob was saying then sure why not, but with full books I think its best to wait it out for you guys to finish it then release it in my opinion then getting little chunks to give feedback.

@Jacob: Yeah thanks for ensuring us that the books will now have proper release dates in the future. As a publisher now it will be good to know.

We don't really give you a "beta" if we're going with the game comparison. Some developers roll out their game in portions, so you can test the first level one week, level two the next, and so on. This is typically the case with MMOs, and this is in line with what we do by releasing the whole book over a period of time.

I still haven't heard a single reason as to why it would be better besides "I think it's better." I'm not trying to be rude, but I honestly don't get it. If you don't want to read it online, wait until the downloads are available. The only difference is that those who want to read it online ahead of time can do so.

Here are the benefits as I see it:

• Chapters are released as soon as possible (to read online)

• By spreading out releases, you won't see the front flooded with 10+ galleries on release day

• You have the option to give feedback

• If you want to read the book online, you can do so during the pre-order period, instead of just waiting

• If you only want the download, you don't get it any later compared to if we were to do it all in one go

I would think that people in the community would be accustomed to it. This is pretty much how every scan group does it and I don't think that's ever been a problem other than having to wait some indefinite time for the next release. But FAKKU is doing it even better by following a schedule. Maybe you can make some kind of argument that readers might perceive things differently but the bottom line is we're getting extra service.

Because you're forced to follow your schedule with the preorder system.
The reader is unusable with old android devices. You can't zoom with the reader.
Also I'm not trying to be rude or anything but I dislike the idea of paying to QC the release for errors.
If I could at least get a x1800 download version then we wouldn't be forced to use the reader, and wouldn't have to be online to read our porn.
"So why did you pre-order?" you might ask. Well because I thought it would be a lot better than this and I also had to if I wanted to use the Gold discount.
If you honestly still think it's not worth the trouble to make some customers happy and give us download of individual chapters with the files that are already on the reader, hire me and I'll do it for free, I'll even delete them from the server later when the whole book is finished.

We've been to optimistic with a lot of the dates up until now, but having all of December made it very manageable, so I think that's a good starting point. Downloads would not come up any sooner if we had released the books in one go.


If you can't use the reader, that's unfortunate, but how is option 1 better than option 2?
Option 1: Pre-orders start in December. Read and download full book in January.
Option 2: Pre-orders and chapter releases start in December. Read and download full book in January.


It's impossible to fully avoid mistakes. Even the Japanese printed books come with errors that are fixed in later revisions—this is very apparent to us, since we get updated versions of certain pages for older books. I think these three books had less (reported) mistakes combined than each of the first two books, so it's not like we rushed them out and you have to bear the brunt of the QA.


Compared to the first two releases? How is this worse? It's the same for you (I assume you don't want to read online) and better for others who use the reader.


Like I said earlier, it's hard to grasp how long some of these seemingly simple things take. "I'll work for free" pops up a lot in these situations, but I doubt you would want to work a few hours each day for free.


The plan for at least the next few books is to release them chapter-by-chapter over (probably) the course of a month, and then release a download. I will harp on about getting the downloads done in time so it won't take 2 weeks next time. I don't see how this is anything but an improvement compared to how we did it for the first two books.

But that was not even my point, I don't mind this system as long as I can get the downloads for the individual chapters, in fact I even thought that was the direction things were going when Jacob created an individual page for each chapter in the first place.
The only reason I kinda agreed with SpeedPunk is that I don't remember delays, at least not for the digital version, with the first 2 books.



I don't think it would take me few hours to download 20-40 images that are the server put them in a zip file and a cbz file and upload them to the server. And it's not like you have anything to lose by letting me try.

Good points. But I rather still get a full DL instead of these one chapter a week stuff which we cannot DL. I know you guys are a new publisher now and still trying to be better so as a customer now I would like to leave some feedback.

• Actual release dates for digital and paperback. (Usually for paperback its ok to set its release date by month, but as the release date gets closer the day should be set too like any other.)

• If you're worried about the front page flooded with the new releases, I think its time to invest in a new layout.

• An android app maybe. On older andoids the online reader is horrible to use.

• Able to DL the weekly chapter releases.(Im just going to assume here but maybe some people are now going to wait to pre-order the book now since we can't read/DL the digital version. Why pre-order now and wait for you guys to finish if we can pre-order when you guys finish the digital version so we can DL it.)

I hope my feedback will be taken into account. Maybe its just me but I think when people pre-order the paperback and also get the digital version we expect the digital version to be available right away. I think its not fair for us to pre-order the book(which charges us right away!) and get nothing but little chapters which we can't DL. What I suggest is the pre-order don't charge us until the digital version or paperback release!

Fakku has spoiled you already, it seems. In any normal case, the digital version would only be available at the same time as the physical book. Getting the digital earlier, whether as a full download or chapters on the reader, can already be considered a special service to those who pre-order. Why complain about getting something earlier than you normally would?

And no, I waited for the downloads before reading it myself as well. I just don't see a reason to deny others the chance to read it whenever Fakku can make it available for them if it is possible to do so.

I rather have the full dl then the chapter. Im a binge reader. Chapters make me sad. No fap in consideration.