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Originally Posted by VillageReader
Curious, because I've don't recall anyone at a bookstore with one of her books at a check out counter. Or reading one on a flight I'm on, for that matter.
Maybe the booksonboard person can give a hint as to the popularity.
I would still argue that the markets are different so the timing issue is probably just a marketing person hand wringing. After all, I'm guessing that whatever the 'official' date is on the deliveries to bookstores a) someone, somewhere, will screw up and get the book on the shelves early and b) some bookstore, somewhere, will get them on the shelves later than the shotgun start.
And everyone will survive the horror of it all  |
It's hugely popular with younger readers (under 25). It's heavily promoted by Social Networks like Facebook, and apparently is growing in popularity amongst the kids that followed Harry Potter closely.
Based on what I hear from my soon-to-be-wife (we're getting married on Saturday), this is a huge release. She's not going to be happy if I can't get this book on her PR505 before the Honeymoon, lol.
EDIT (for my opinion):
As far as I'm concerned, being that I run a huge P2P news site and fully understand file sharing technology -- this book will be leaked regardless of whether or not it was originally in eBook form. Pirates will do anything to get their "crew" recognized as first-time releasers of software/ebooks/mp3s/etc, including by scanning massive amounts of pages over night into a PDF or whatever other format. My advice to the publisher, release it with the book. If you don't, you open yourself up to losing profits and also certain groups will go so far as to try and leak it earlier.