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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Or because they *choose* not to ship as soon as they get the order.
Amazon seems to be betting that if Hachette books are harder to get, the reader will move on to the next title on their wishlist. So instead of business as usual--stockpiling, at their expense, weeks or months of any given title--they treat them like special order items and let Hachette decide how fast to fulfill the order.
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I am not seeing the point in this. Does the average person have a wishlist that they actually follow and if so, are they that likely to just go with the second choice and forgo the first because of shipping? I would be more likely to exhaust all other options and if another supplier is faster, they may become my first shopping choice.
Before eBooks it wasn't easy to order books in the store. I tried a few times at both large and smaller venders and had zero luck, so I have never developed the habit of pre ordering etc. and I know if I had a wishlist it would grow so fast as to make it too cumbersome to be useful.
My roommates used to order books but always ordered several at once and didn't seem to care when they arrived.
I would think that delay tactics would just send the majority of impatient people to B&M stores or libraries etc.
Helen