I am from Australia and have been trying (to no avail) to contact Beachcomber to offer some feedback - hopefully this review will suffice. I love the Sudoku Variations book (the most) and also Sudoku Monthly and have been doing these puzzles for many years. I have noticed in the past 6-12 months that the paper quality of the book has deteriorated - I generally do the puzzles in pencil (just in case I need to change it) and recently the colour and the lines simply rub off, even the b/g colour of the page rubs off. And possibly worse than than, the ink from the numbers and lines rub off on the opposite pages, which is very disconcerting to find light numbers and lines and smudges from opp. pages in the game you are tackling. It certainly reduces the enjoyment of the game and I have noticed that the 3 news agents I buy from have all cut down on how often and how many of the Beachcomber puzzle books that I like. I enquired why and was told they are not as popular now and that coincides fully with the poor quality paper. I thought perhaps the paper supplier may have been supplying an inferior paper and that Beachcomber or Unique or whoever are publishing these books may not be aware. I hope this can be rectified as I want to keep buying these books, but, if the popularity decreases any further (I think because of the paper quality) then I will have a hard job even finding news agents that bother to carry them. Fingers crossed!! : )