I thought it would...^ Makes me feel sssoooo much better...!![]()
I thought it would...^ Makes me feel sssoooo much better...!![]()
I think play have got terrible for deliveries over the past year or two. They always used to be quick then they seemed to have become big and got worse. At least Amazon gives you the option of paying for faster delivery, whereas with play you're stuck with free, slow deliveries.
Mine is STILL en route from The Book Depository (and has been for about a week).
Getting impatient....![]()
Given it was released last Thursday and most bookshops here didn't get it in their deliveries till Friday, I think you need to learn some patience![]()
At least Amazon gives you the option of paying for faster delivery, whereas with play you're stuck with free, slow deliveries.
I'm just not used to waiting any more, Amazon prime guarentees next day delivery for ordered made before 5:30 Monday to Friday, and I order enough that it makes the £50 a year worth it.At least Amazon gives you the option of paying for faster delivery, whereas with play you're stuck with free, slow deliveries.
Normally I'm quite content for Play to get my stuff to me as and when. It's just that I'm particulalry interested in this book, you know, so I can join in the chat here!![]()
^Try The Book Depository, it has free delivery worldwide... It's $17.54 (CAD)
I got mine through Book Depository - took it about a week to show up, and I've been eagerly devouring it ever since.
^Try The Book Depository, it has free delivery worldwide... It's $17.54 (CAD)
Alex, the book is going to be available in North America, but it also takes time. As I noted on the previous page, the distributor who handles the books in NA isn't getting them until the end of February. It's not cost effective to have the book put on a plane and flown out day one.Once again it's a case of an industry not realizing its 2010. I'd like to order my copy through Amazon.ca, and support Canadian business. I'd even be willing to pay the $30 or whatever and buy it off the shelf at a place like Indigo or an independent bookstore (if I can find one). But if they're not making the material available, I'm no longer content to wait months (sometimes many months) for them to eventually bother bringing it.
The Eyeless had distribution problems. Again, it's a function of getting the book from the UK into a North American distro channel.Did you know I just saw a copy of The Eyeless in an Indigo for the very first time a couple weeks ago? That DW book's been out in the UK and available online since Christmas ... of 2008!
Alex, the book is going to be available in North America, but it also takes time. As I noted on the previous page, the distributor who handles the books in NA isn't getting them until the end of February. It's not cost effective to have the book put on a plane and flown out day one.
This is why, about twelve years ago when BBC Books got the license back, they didn't want to have someone handle distribution in the United States of books published in the UK. What they wanted was a US-based publisher to handle publishing the books in the territory. They couldn't find anyone, and they went with London Bridge, which had handled distribution for Virgin. Who then collapsed around the time of The Ancestor Cell.
The market for Doctor Who novels in North America is presumably nowhere near large enough to justify printing them over here.
You're welcomeMy jaw is hitting the floor from that Book Depository site... I had no idea such a place existed.
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