The US problem is one matter, and we can always circumvent the buggers via the mail. That'll teach em. Belochka's problem is another matter, and one I suspect caused by amazon being overwhelmed by demand for a certain other book.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

I'm having same problem with Amazon... no sign of my WOLP yet. :-(

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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

If you're thinking of switching booksellers, try Post Mortem books (see Jasper's links) I ordered LIAGB from Ralph last summer and it came very quickly and he was a really nice gent (called me to get my credit card number because I didn't want to post it in an email but he has since upgraded his site to allow secure processing online)

I ordered WOLP from him as well, haven't gotten it yet of course, but I have no reason to believe that it won't show up in a timely manner.

As far as I can tell, Post Mortem only has the hardbacks, and I was trying to get the paperback. I'm @#$%&. Well, poor, actually. And that's what the rest of my british editions are, so it might as well match.

ah, well, that explains it

What about Amazon Canada? I think they have both there as well...@#$%& shipping too.

I just ordered my sister UK paperback copies of LIAGB and TEA...cost me about $10 less there even after the exchange rate

Last I looked, Amazon Canada didn't have it available to pre-order. And if amazon.uk won't ship to the US before the US publication date, I'm not sure amazon.ca will either. I'll look into it though.

Patience is definitely not in the top 3 of any possible virtues I possess.

Amazon has done sweet F.A with my email enquiry, order or the listing of WOLP as 'Not yet published'. You had your chance guys, so it's off to W.H Smug's or similar for me tomorrow.

At times like this I very much wish that the dream of a co-operative bookshop was little less dreamlike and a damn sight more realistic.

Perhaps we should get together as a Fforum and fform one?



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

Just checked Amazon Canada, and while WOLP is available for preordering, it's apparently not being released there until September 1 of this year (which would explain Jasper's tour of Canada in October). I don't particularly want to wait that long just to pay a slightly lower international shipping rate.

I'll see if I get anywhere with Amazon.uk, and if not I might just go with the Fforumite bribery method. I can pay either by barter or PayPal (if we want to be boring and go with cash). I wonder what it would cost to ship a small soft dodo to the UK? I imagine one of those would travel better than a cake.

Anyone want to talk business plans, because I'm told I can 'do' lunch really well :)

I can deal with publishers sales reps, and I know how to run budgets and deal with enquiries. And I'm not fishing for a job at the moment, oh lord no.

Yeah, a dodo would travel better, but still ..... cake ..... mmmmm

(For newcomers, I should point out that if Magda's cakes taste half as good as they look then they are the staple diet in Paradise).



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Unfortunately, the only way to safely ship a soft American style sponge cake with buttercream icing (which is what I do most) is frozen, with dry ice. Which costs a bloody fortune even within the US. My mother looked into it when she was considering having me do a birthday cake to send to my brother in Seattle, and decided that it was too expensive.

My goodness, you are all having dramas! I haven't got my copy yet either, due to the inability to get to the bookshop. My 3 year old tipped a load of folding tables over at church on Sunday straight into my leg. OOOOWWWWWWWWWW! I now have a corked thigh and am hobbling around in a rather painful manner. So I'm just gonna have to wait til next week to get anywhere.

*sobs*

Evehsam is a one-horse town, and it seems that the horse is too knackered from HP to do any book deliveries to any shops in town - so I got my mother to pock me up one from Stratford...

I foresaw the dilivery problem, so didn't pre-order...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Midnight here, and no word yet from Amazon. I'm off to bed, then I'll check my mail again in 7-8 hours or so when I get up.



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I can pop a copy or two in the post for anyone that wants them too, if you bribe me enough...



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Do something pretty while you can...

Magda_
A dodo would certainly be acceptable in exchange for a copy of WOLP, if you still can't get one elsewhere.

Well, it's now been 24 hours, and I've heard naught from Amazon. My email is probably buried under a pile of folks wanting to know where their HP book is. Given the response Tracy got from the, I suspect I know what the answer will be though. If fact, I'd bet my Februrary delivery dates refer to February of 2005, which is likely when the American paperback will come out (in the US the paperback usually comes out about a year after the hardback, and a month before the next hardback in the series).

I've had a few offers from kind Fforum folks to post me one, and am trying to decide if I should wait for someone to get one signed for me, or ask someone to post one right away.

I did find one bookshop website that would send me the paperback, but they have the 7th as the release date, so they're not shipping it yet.

I will warn folks, the shipping to the US may cost almost as much as the book itself (the website above quoted 6 pounds shipping for 5-7 day delivery by Royal Air Mail).

well, you have so many offers i might be too late, but i'd love a little dodo, and i can post stuff from work... (yes i'm evil, but they don't pay me enough i might as well use them as my post office)

Magda - It took 2 days before they got back to me. Who knows, maybe with more than one of us complaining they will change the policy and just send us the books. Wishful thinking I know...