I ordered a copy from Blackwell’s on Oct 7 and it was just delivered. Definitely not a reprint.

Loving it so far! The die cut (and printed on both sides) pages from the Book of Mazarbul are fantastic little extras amongst many for the deluxe.

Urulókë wrote:

I ordered a copy from Blackwell’s on Oct 7 and it was just delivered. Definitely not a reprint.

Loving it so far! The die cut (and printed on both sides) pages from the Book of Mazarbul are fantastic little extras amongst many for the deluxe.

That was quick!

I have not seen the reply myself
This reply from Blackwell is indeed very reassuring, as well as Urulókë confirmation !
The delivery was really speedy indeed !

I guess publications dates are pretty flexible now.

Khamûl wrote:

I guess publications dates are pretty flexible now.

Definitely seems that way. Everything seems in turmoil to begin with, and for most books, the publishers are not insisting on moratoriums to block booksellers from selling before release day. In my case, the shipping estimate was that it would arrive on publication day for me, and it just so happened to go halfway around the world a lot faster than planned. I can only assume that booksellers want to get books out of their warehouses as quickly as they can, as space (and time) is money.

It looks like, from conversations with HC, that any moratorium is one week before the release date to allow for shipping time, it is then down to the supplier to stick to the official release date or not.

Ya, with different sellers using different couriers and shipping to all places all over the world, it's nearly impossible to enforce release dates. Seems to be more of like a release "window"

Both of mine have shipped as well from Blackwells, but didn't show up today.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Ya, with different sellers using different couriers and shipping to all places all over the world, it's nearly impossible to enforce release dates. Seems to be more of like a release "window"

The one thing I have noticed with BD is that they pretty much always ship quite a bit *after* the release date.

Stu wrote:

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Ya, with different sellers using different couriers and shipping to all places all over the world, it's nearly impossible to enforce release dates. Seems to be more of like a release "window"

The one thing I have noticed with BD is that they pretty much always ship quite a bit *after* the release date.

Noticed that too. I ordered the trade NoME through them and they waited until Sept. 2 (official release date) to ship it out to me.

Book Depository is owned by Amazon, and Amazon seems to respect release dates before they ship.