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Here’s a little information. Amazon says, irritatingly, that Why Truth Matters is ‘usually dispatched within 5 to 8 weeks’ – but it doesn’t mean it. The publisher looked into it and discovered that Amazon has an automated system whereby if they temporarily run out of copies of a book (because of a sudden spike in sales, for instance) their system automatically reverts to 5-8 weeks, even if they have an arrangement with the publisher that supplies them directly so that they get new supplies in 24 hours. No amount of pleading from the publishers, apparently, can shift this odd and unhelpful way of doing things. Well, thanks! Discourage customers, why don’t you! So the point is, it’s not really going to be 5 weeks before they send copies, it’s going to be the usual few days, or just one day. Ignore them when they say it will be fifteen years.
Amazon US had no trouble getting WTM out quickly and I will present it to my aspiring-scientist niece this weekend as an addition to the “Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense” she got a huge kick out of a few weeks ago. Your labors are not in vain…
Why, thanks, Publius! Your niece sounds like a sterling character. Strength to her sword arm (or her microscope eye, or something).
Amazon US says within 24 hours. Do they have bigger warehouses than in the UK? Or is there much less demand for it in the US? I certainly hope it isn’t the latter.
Barnes & Noble: 3 days or less. Powell’s: 1 to 3 days. See? The USA is Paradise, after all!
I’m enjoying reading it very much. I think I’ll get a copy for my son, who is pretty level-headed in general but sometimes falls for new-agey ideas.
Make them add the thing where we get to read an excerpt. You know the thing that I mean. The ‘read an excerpt’ thing.