Yep, got that email. If it really takes that long to ship I'll have to change the order, but maybe they'll surprise me with a sooner appearance. Meanwhile I bought the pdf from Paizo so I can still get familiar with it even though I don't get to enjoy the dead tree version.
Yep, got that email. If it really takes that long to ship I'll have to change the order, but maybe they'll surprise me with a sooner appearance. Meanwhile I bought the pdf from Paizo so I can still get familiar with it even though I don't get to enjoy the dead tree version.Yeah I feel like it has to be an error, as that seems like an arbitrarily long delay for a book that was pre-ordered, so probably isn't out of stock.
More than likely it is out of stock.
Amazon will order for all their pre-orders, and then some.
However, they are ordering it from a distributor, not from Paizo. The distributor puts in an order to Paizo.
So, what has likely happened is this :
Paizo ran off 100,000 copies (SWAG)
Distributor A ordered 30,000 copies
Distributor B ordered 40,000 copies
Distributor C ordered 15,000 copies
Paizo kept 15,000 copies for their own sales
Distributor C had an order for 5,500 copies from Amazon
Distributor C had orders from other customers totaling 15,000.
Distributor C doesn't have 20,000 books, so they send a percentage to everyone, so Amazon got 4,000 books. Unfortunately, they have 5,000 pre-orders. So they put the other 1,000 people on back order until Distributor C sends them their other 1,500 books.
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Also of note:
The distributor Amazon buys from, Diamond, releases new items on Tuesday. Paizo releases new items on Wednesday. So, Diamond will release their new Paizo items the Tuesday after Paizo releases them. Which means that Amazon won't have them on release day.
A few days before release date, Amazon's algorithms will say, "Huh, we don't have this book that's releasing on Wednesday in stock. Let's push the release date back a month."
Viola. Amazon says that the product isn't available and is releasing a month late.
Also of note:
The distributor Amazon buys from, Diamond, releases new items on Tuesday. Paizo releases new items on Wednesday. So, Diamond will release their new Paizo items the Tuesday after Paizo releases them. Which means that Amazon won't have them on release day.
A few days before release date, Amazon's algorithms will say, "Huh, we don't have this book that's releasing on Wednesday in stock. Let's push the release date back a month."
Viola. Amazon says that the product isn't available and is releasing a month late.
Just curious, is there a reason Paizo doesn't release items on Tuesdays?
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Just curious, is there a reason Paizo doesn't release items on Tuesdays?Also of note:
The distributor Amazon buys from, Diamond, releases new items on Tuesday. Paizo releases new items on Wednesday. So, Diamond will release their new Paizo items the Tuesday after Paizo releases them. Which means that Amazon won't have them on release day.
A few days before release date, Amazon's algorithms will say, "Huh, we don't have this book that's releasing on Wednesday in stock. Let's push the release date back a month."
Viola. Amazon says that the product isn't available and is releasing a month late.
It's an industry thing. If our primary market were bookstores, we would have Tuesday releases, but our primary market is hobby stores. Many hobby stores also carry comic books, and new comics have been released on Wednesdays for many years, so hobby stores therefore have their big stocking days on Wednesdays.
Ok so I know this has probably been talked about and poured over countless times, but i think there is a serious problem with amazon a few book that are out and will be released soon have a release date on amazon.com of mid January 2012. One case in point is the new Carrion Crown(already have and love it.)it has a release date of Jan 10 2012, so... WTF mates???
That's more of a question for Amazon to answer... They appear to love to randomly assign future release dates on upcoming products, and don't always get new products in and stocked in a timely manner.