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Erikson, Availability, etc.
Feb. 23rd, 2011 01:01 pmApparently, Amazon suddenly shifted the availability of Erikson's The Crippled God yesterday (the release day in Canada -- Canadian publication of Erikson is under the UK rights, not the US ones, which have a March 1 release date) from yesterday to March 15.
Chapters/Indigo indicates "temporarily unavailable to order new" (although they do grant that the book has been released).
Bakka did not have it in yesterday and did not know when they would. (I did pick up a copy of Walter Jon Williams' Deep State while I was in, though.)
I will also note that Transworld/Bantam is not on the list of H.B. Fenn publishers (speaking of which, and given that Tor is, I note that Bakka has a good stack of copies of Jo Walton's Among Others, and I also saw several copies on display at a Chaptigo table for general fiction as a foregrounded book -- this may be a bit of a breakout book for Jo).
The book seems to be shipping in the UK.
I wonder: my copies of other Erikson books in trade PB indicate that they are printed in England. Have there been enough unanticipated extra orders in the UK to push the publishers to go back for a new printing, reallocating stock from other countries to the UK to meet the demand there? As a possible indicator, it's at rank 34 in Books on the amazon.co.uk website (though, oddly, at rank 50 in Fiction, which seems to be counter-intuitive, and I haven't the patience to figure out what's missing from the one list).
I'm not mourning this too much: I'm doing a forced march reread to prepare me for the release, and I'm still part-way through Reaper's Gale, plus having several other books to read. I'm curious, though, because it's rare for everyone to shift availability all at once like this, unless a book's publication is genuinely delayed (which it's obviously not, given the UK situation).
Chapters/Indigo indicates "temporarily unavailable to order new" (although they do grant that the book has been released).
Bakka did not have it in yesterday and did not know when they would. (I did pick up a copy of Walter Jon Williams' Deep State while I was in, though.)
I will also note that Transworld/Bantam is not on the list of H.B. Fenn publishers (speaking of which, and given that Tor is, I note that Bakka has a good stack of copies of Jo Walton's Among Others, and I also saw several copies on display at a Chaptigo table for general fiction as a foregrounded book -- this may be a bit of a breakout book for Jo).
The book seems to be shipping in the UK.
I wonder: my copies of other Erikson books in trade PB indicate that they are printed in England. Have there been enough unanticipated extra orders in the UK to push the publishers to go back for a new printing, reallocating stock from other countries to the UK to meet the demand there? As a possible indicator, it's at rank 34 in Books on the amazon.co.uk website (though, oddly, at rank 50 in Fiction, which seems to be counter-intuitive, and I haven't the patience to figure out what's missing from the one list).
I'm not mourning this too much: I'm doing a forced march reread to prepare me for the release, and I'm still part-way through Reaper's Gale, plus having several other books to read. I'm curious, though, because it's rare for everyone to shift availability all at once like this, unless a book's publication is genuinely delayed (which it's obviously not, given the UK situation).
