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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Are you hinting at the possibility that some pre-orders may not be fulfilled by Amazon (not their fault), or do you mean that Amazon will never put up a pre-order option unless it can guarantee delivery? And in the case they can't, they sue for contract breach?
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If they don't have a contract in place they can't sue.
That is why they regularly remove pre-order buttons for items due out *after* existing contracts expire. (Hachette wasn't the only time they removed them. It appears to be their policy. They did it with Disney and WB on DVDS. The two kept negotiating without public whining.)
Would you take an order for a product you have no assurance you can actually deliver? I wouldn't. Some people would and do. I've run into them.
(Buy.com did it to me. I no longer buy books or anything else from them. And they used to get almost as much business from me as Amazon.)
So far, Amazon hasn't failed to deliver on my pre-orders. Typically, they ship the day before release and I get it the day after.