Sure, but watch the SW section swell before Christmas, and the ST section swell next September. Bookshops like a current version to be readily accessible, and they ride the cinemas' advertising, and the media releases.
Their website is now listing Sight Unseen as "Available in stores". Not anywhere near me, but, you know... somewhere.
Well the main reason why I go to my local Coles store is because I can ship the book to the store for free, since I usually only have one book come in at a time, and to ship each title as they came out Chapters would want to charge a shipping fee. So you might have to just give in and order.
Just to make you all jealous, here's a few partial shots of the extensive "Star Trek" shelves at Galaxy Bookshop, Sydney, Australia, last Thursday night. Galaxy Bookshop's Star Trek display by Ian McLean, on Flickr Galaxy Bookshop's Star Trek display by Ian McLean, on Flickr Meanwhile, over at New Releases: Galaxy Bookshop's New Releases display by Ian McLean, on Flickr
OK, it seems that my local Indigo got Atonement, Sight Unseen and All That's Left in this week in one fell swoop. The only one of the recent MIA titles that wasn't there was Long Shot. Was this some kind of strategy to delay stocking these as they were released, in order to have a bunch of new Trek books in at once for the holiday shopping season? Or just an oversight that they caught and corrected all at once? Or something else entirely? I have no idea. I picked up Sight Unseen and All That's Left. (I had already got Atonement from Coles.) Oh, they also had the new Costumes book, but I couldn't financially justify getting that one.
You could try starting up a conversation (and ongoing rapport) with the staff. I am known by name in at least ten bookshops in Sydney. Sometimes they even ask my advice on ordering.
Isn't Galaxy a specialty sci-fi bookstore? It makes sense they would have a much bigger Star Trek selection than regular bookstores.
Yes, that's why they have a large set of shelving dedicated to Trek, but several of our general bookshops in Sydney also have healthy Trek sections.