Thanks for the interesting discussion. Overall there is much money in the sudoku world. Unfortunately most of it goes to very few big gaming software companies who barely know what a Sudoku is. Also very true what you said about the availability of puzzles. Most people only know their newspaper Sudokus and have no idea that there is a rich tapestry of hand-crafted puzzles beyond that. So the overall goal of the Sudoku community should be to give people easy access to puzzles, so that actual good puzzles make it to the mainstream, get people excited, and grow the overall demand for good puzzles which then will (hopefully) benefit dedicated puzzle setters.
Thanks for the interesting discussion. Overall there is much money in the sudoku world. Unfortunately most of it goes to very few big gaming software companies who barely know what a Sudoku is.
Also very true what you said about the availability of puzzles. Most people only know their newspaper Sudokus and have no idea that there is a rich tapestry of hand-crafted puzzles beyond that. So the overall goal of the Sudoku community should be to give people easy access to puzzles, so that actual good puzzles make it to the mainstream, get people excited, and grow the overall demand for good puzzles which then will (hopefully) benefit dedicated puzzle setters.