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Originally Posted by jemc
Do you have real information on their shipping practices or is this just more speculation on your part?
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Hachette had a net profit margin of 17 percent last year. That's impressive for their industry and hardly would be characteristic of an outfit taking weeks to ship such a perishable item as a hardcover bestseller. And it's not speculation that the company officially says
We are satisfying all Amazon’s orders promptly.
As for Amazon's side of the story, I see that they have doubled-down since yesterday, now saying that the hardcover
Instinct usually ships in 1 to 2 months! But Amazon makes no statement as to how much of this 1 to 2 months is the shipping time between placing an order with Hachette and receiving it at an Amazon warehouse. Even when a reporter from Jeff Bezos's own newspaper called (see my first link in this post), they refused to be interviewed on such questions.
I believe it because it's consistent with what makes sense. Just as it's consistent with what the parties are, and are not, saying.
How many months does the "usually ship" time frame have to increase to until you would admit that the same dynamic is going on here as when Amazon took away the Macmillan buy buttons?