Amazon "Pre-Order" Dates

[Brian Cortijo]

So, flipping around amazon.com earlier, I decided to look at some current and upcoming Paizo books. Strangely, most of the ones I looked at had the wrong release date.

All of the following current releases (that is, books that released in May or June) have a listed release date of January 10, 2012, and are currently available only for pre-order:

Hunt the Space-Witch
GameMastery Flip-Mat: Country Inn
Rival Guide
Humans of Golarion
Academy of Secrets
Undead Revisited
Pathfinder Adventure Path #46: Wake of the Watcher

The following July releases are also listed with a publish date of Jan 10, 2012:
Faiths of Balance
The Planet Killers
Dungeons of Golarion
Pathfinder Adventure Path #47: Ashes at Dawn

Are these dates set by Amazon? By Paizo? By random guessing-games performed by the distributor? I know retail dates are usually 2-3 weeks after the on-sale date for Paizo.com, but we're talking almost 6 months difference here.

[Vic Wertz]

We'll look into it, but I wouldn't worry about it. Even though they seem bent on making up their own release dates for all of our products, that doesn't seem to stop them from shipping things.