Today I noticed that my BooksOnBoard wishlist was missing over 10 books since I last checked on Sunday. I emailed BoB about this and just got a reply. It seems Hachette has introduced the Agency Model for Europe since 20 September. They have made their title unavailable until everything is set up (haven't they learned from the US process in April?!).
Full BoB reply:
Quote:
Thank you for your patience. Hachette Book Group has adopted the Agency Model fixed eBook pricing for Europe beginning Sep 20, 2010. How does Agency Model affect the customer? All retailers must sell the titles at the price set by the publisher, no discounts or promotions allowed. Further, retailers must collect sales taxes required by the nexus where the customer resides. Titles by this publisher will be temporarily unavailable while the new distribution system and meta data is loaded. If these titles were previously saved to the user wishlist, they will be deleted as the distributor feed updates our catalog and deletes them from our catalog. It may take some time before these titles are returned to our site as new contracts/agreements are required between publishers-distributors-retailers and publishers are testing retailer distribution systems and pricing to make certain that all requirements of Agency are met before allowing distribution of their titles to be re-established. If there is no change to the meta data fields that identify the titles (master ID, SKU, etc.) the titles should reappear on their own in your wishlist when they are again available in our catalog.
We regret this temporary situation and of course will work as diligently as possible to return this product to our catalog as soon as possible.
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Hopefully all the missing books will return soon and I hope the price won't have increased too much. I also hope that the Barnaby/Midsommer Murder by Caroline Graham series will be complete, it was missing book 3 and (I think) 5 of the series as ebooks, which annoyed me greatly.