The Writers Tale: The Final Chapter
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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.
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.
I managed to pick mine up on Friday from Waterstones in Salisbury and I'm not exactly surprised some deliveries are late given the amount of snow and "chaos" it's brought with it over the last few weeks.
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
Oh, I agree totally!
What makes me even more pathetic, though, is that after whinging about it, the book then arrived in the late afternoon mail yesterday. So now I feel really stupid.
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!
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.
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!
As for the book, if you're anything like me you'll want to actually set aside time to read it rather than just reading when you can because I had a spare half hour waiting for a TV show to come on and 2 hours later I was still reading and totally missed the show...
My turn to be annoyed. It was supposed to be released in North America on Jan 21, but according to Amazon Canada they can't get it at the moment so it's in the "we'll notify you if it becomes available" column which they usually reserve for stuff that's out of print or sold out. Argh.
Oh well, at least I don't have to wait any longer for the Modesty Blaise comic strip collection and the first two Ultimate Edition Harry Potter blu-ray boxes I ordered at the same time!
But this seems to happen with Doctor Who stuff. When I tried to order the 2010 annual, and again before that when I ordered The Story of Martha novel Amazon couldn't get it on the day it was supposed to be available, but a couple weeks later they finally shipped it. I guess whoever is ordering stock for the warehouse in Ontario must not think there's any interest in Doctor Who up here!
Alex
Oh well, at least I don't have to wait any longer for the Modesty Blaise comic strip collection and the first two Ultimate Edition Harry Potter blu-ray boxes I ordered at the same time!
But this seems to happen with Doctor Who stuff. When I tried to order the 2010 annual, and again before that when I ordered The Story of Martha novel Amazon couldn't get it on the day it was supposed to be available, but a couple weeks later they finally shipped it. I guess whoever is ordering stock for the warehouse in Ontario must not think there's any interest in Doctor Who up here!
Alex
Has anyone in North America been able to obtain the book through a North American source? I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me the release has been delayed till March 24!
Yes I can order it from the UK but it'll end up costing quite a bit more (no free shipping for one) than ordering it from Amazon Canada. Quite annoying.
I just checked Indigo.ca and they say it's also unavailable. So it's not just Amazon Canada. And I just checked Amazon US and it doesn't even have a release date listed!
Alex
Yes I can order it from the UK but it'll end up costing quite a bit more (no free shipping for one) than ordering it from Amazon Canada. Quite annoying.
I just checked Indigo.ca and they say it's also unavailable. So it's not just Amazon Canada. And I just checked Amazon US and it doesn't even have a release date listed!
Alex
I'll check it out. I just took a few minutes and checked the American Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indigo.ca, McNally Robinson -- none of them list the new edition as being available. I wonder what got screwed up. The good news is books are "region-free"!
Alex
Being unfamiliar with Book Depository, is it UK-based? That would of course explain it. Some of the Amazon Marketplace listings for the book (I see prices as high as $50
) indicate they're shipped from the UK. 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. 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
...And I just cancelled my Amazon.ca order and did my order too. And I don't know where you got $17 from. I only got charged about $14.50!
I actually have dealt with these guys before - I ordered a couple of DW CDs through them via Amazon Marketplace last year. And while it took Canada Post 10 days to deliver a letter from Calgary to Saskatoon earlier this month, and I've seen it take better than a month for packages to arrive in the US, I find I often get UK-shipped items within a week. In fact I'm not exaggerating when I say I half expect to get Writer's Tale by this Friday, or Monday at the latest.
Alex
I actually have dealt with these guys before - I ordered a couple of DW CDs through them via Amazon Marketplace last year. And while it took Canada Post 10 days to deliver a letter from Calgary to Saskatoon earlier this month, and I've seen it take better than a month for packages to arrive in the US, I find I often get UK-shipped items within a week. In fact I'm not exaggerating when I say I half expect to get Writer's Tale by this Friday, or Monday at the latest.
Alex
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 Eyeless had distribution problems. Again, it's a function of getting the book from the UK into a North American distro channel.
But surely they could be printed here in North America...isn't that's what happening with the North American books?
Is it about printing or is it about contractual release dates--first in the UK then in North America, like release dates of movies?
The market for Doctor Who novels in North America is presumably nowhere near large enough to justify printing them over here.
Ah. True.
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