Fearful Symmetry is here!!!!!
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Got mine in hand. It arrived with yesterday's shipment.
Special orders always arrive far sooner than the store copies, so unless you ordered one it's unlikely the nearby store has received theirs yet.
Damn, that sucks. I was kind of hoping they would put it out alittle early, since sometimes that happens. Grr... Thats like the only book I have been waiting for most of the year to come out.
Got mine in hand. It arrived with yesterday's shipment.
Special orders always arrive far sooner than the store copies, so unless you ordered one it's unlikely the nearby store has received theirs yet.
Out of curiosity, special orders through whom?
phrog mentioned his regular "shipment" - ie of weekly comics?. He probably means that some SF/comics specialist shops place some orders with Diamond Comic Distributors and some with Pocket, and then whichever batch arrives first goes to the special orders. You can't always rely on which batch arrives first.
For some accursed reason, the Pacific Northwest always seems to be among the last parts of the country to receive new Trek books. As soon as Amazon shows a book as being "in stock", I write down the ISBN # and go down to the local bookstore and "special order" it, and usually get my copy before the book store receives its regular shipment and puts it on the shelf.
Deep Discount still hasn't sent my copy... 
That would be because it spends no time stored in a box in a local distribution warehouse.
I actually work for a major chain bookstore, and if you have a standing special order they'll almost always ship first before the store's shipment. They ship directly from the warehouse instead of being lumped in with the regular product to be shipped to a store. This can include lots and lots of backlist, new products, etc. that's already in line to get sent to us.
To give you an idea, I got my copy of These Haunted Seas a good week and a half earlier than the store got theirs. It gets priority shipped instead of coming with the regular truck which has dozens of boxes of replenishment product, new stock, etc. and since these aren't strict on sale products and have a fuzzy release date they usually arrive within 7-14 days of the listed date. If it's listed at the end of the month, it'll probably be there the first week or ten days of the next month. Sometimes there's exceptions of course.
However, your special order hits the warehouse and they ship it right when the book hits their stock... so once the books arrive at distribution, it gets boxed and shipped. The only thing you wait for then, is ship time.
Long and short, ask if you can pre-order and you'll get it earlier than the store almost every time. The only exception is of course strict on sale dates, with an advertised and contracted hard release date.
YMMV with other chains, locations, space/time continuums... but this has always been my experience and what I tell my customers.
To give you an idea, I got my copy of These Haunted Seas a good week and a half earlier than the store got theirs. It gets priority shipped instead of coming with the regular truck which has dozens of boxes of replenishment product, new stock, etc. and since these aren't strict on sale products and have a fuzzy release date they usually arrive within 7-14 days of the listed date. If it's listed at the end of the month, it'll probably be there the first week or ten days of the next month. Sometimes there's exceptions of course.
However, your special order hits the warehouse and they ship it right when the book hits their stock... so once the books arrive at distribution, it gets boxed and shipped. The only thing you wait for then, is ship time.
Long and short, ask if you can pre-order and you'll get it earlier than the store almost every time. The only exception is of course strict on sale dates, with an advertised and contracted hard release date.
YMMV with other chains, locations, space/time continuums... but this has always been my experience and what I tell my customers.
In other words you're a lucky bastard and we're all jealous of you. 
Got my copy from Amazon today. Handsome-looking book. And now to read...
Well thats good info to have for next time if I need to special order something.
Mine arrived yesterday. I have to admit, the first part (I forgot if it was a chapter or a prologue) really intrigued me.
It arrived Down Under on Wednesday! Yay!
Got mine today!
Mine has finally shipped today. I'll get it in about two weeks...*sigh*
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