You know, I'm not surprised. This will be the future of publishing if Amazon is the major player.
Amazon recently gave another author the finger, too.
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In a strange turn of fate, Amazon is ignoring the authors wishes and releasing a book before it's determined release date:
On her LiveJournal, author Seanan McGuire posts the situation with her latest book, Discount Armageddon, which is supposed to street on March 6th.
McGuire writes:
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As of midnight Monday/the very beginning of Tuesday, Amazon has been shipping copies of Discount Armageddon. Consequentially, Barnes & Noble is doing the same thing. I haven’t been saying anything because DAW is trying frantically to fix it, and I didn’t want to drive sales to the sites which have chosen to release my book early. (I don’t blame B&N for reacting when they saw that the book was on sale; they’re a business, after all. But it’s not helping my stress level any.) Please, please, do not buy my book early. I know it’s hard. I know that the urge to have the shiny thing now is strong within us. I’ve ordered dolls from Japan and Australia, and DVD sets from Canada and the UK, for just this reason. But those things were legitimately released in the regions where I was ordering them, and Discount Armageddon has not been legitimately released anywhere at all. Please wait until March 6th. Don’t punish independent bookstores, and local brick and mortar stores, for some computer’s hard-to-fix mistake. Please. I am literally begging you here.
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This is pretty bad, too. While I hate authors telling consumers when and where to purchase...Amazon has no right to grandstand the book's release.