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As noted in the Orlando Sentinel yesterday, for the just-released 2017 edition of The easy Guide, co-author Josh (of easyWDW.com) and I have removed the word “First” from the title–it’s now The easy Guide to Your Walt Disney World Visit.

You can meet us and argue about the title in person this Sunday, 8/28

• At Epcot we’ll be outside (not inside like in the photo) and to the right of the Pyramid entrance in Mexico from 1 to about 2p.
• At Magic Kingdom we’ll be in Tortuga Tavern, which is back towards the Frontierland end of Adventureland, from 4 to around 5p.

We had a number of good reasons for changing the title, and all were captured by commenter Jeff on Friday:

“The name change is very smart.

“I actually put off buying the book for a couple years because I’m such an experienced Disney World visitor, and I didn’t see the point of buying a book geared to rookies.

“Once I finally purchased the book, I realized how much I’d been missing and was then inclined to visit your two great web sites.

“It really is the best WDW guide book, by far, and I’ve bought ALL of them.”

Thanks, Jeff!!

We changed the title, but did not remove one word of material aimed at first timers. Rather, we added material for returning visitors–especially to Chapter 1, see the example below–and changed the language to be more inclusive of returning visitors in multiple spots later.

We knew from our first 2014 edition that this book was quite valuable for returning visitors–especially the 80% of the book that is about when to go, where to stay, what to do in the parks, and where to eat.

Chapters 2 and 3 frankly are not helpful to returning visitors.  They are on how old kids should be, and on how long to stay–returners have figured all that out.  We left them early in the book even so because they are such key topics for first timers.  However, between them they only include 12 pages, and because of our simple organization it’s easy for returning visitors to skip them.

Changing the name makes it more likely that the book will find its way to helping other people like Jeff!

And remember, also new for 2017 is our free update program.

If people forward their 2017 edition Amazon purchase confirmation to us as instructed in the book, we will let them know on that email address how to get a PDF version of our updated book!

Here’s explicitly what the book says about updates in the Introduction:

We talked about many other titles before settling on simply taking out the word “First.”  I happened to especially like “Dave and Josh’s Best Walt Disney World Guide Book Ever,” but no one else did.

Come by and meet us on Sunday, and suggest a different title!  But get the book first, OK? You’ll be glad you did.

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