It effectively negates the 5% extra rebate for early ordering that they promise, since you can't order early (apparently shrinking the time period, as done earlier, wasn't effective enough, so now there are no books at all until after the early time period is up). Not that they actually honored that last week, anyway (nor have they bothered to reply to my complaint, other than the autobot's reply that they would get back to me).
Karen
http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/