Another Bookstore Releasing the Books Early

[Kheti sa-Menik]

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If you owned a game store and were counting on this "book sale" to feed your kids you'd be signing a different tune.

Actually if I owned a game store, I wouldn't be selling 4th edition at all.
Any way, in any store I've worked in, you get it from the distributor, you get it on the shelves and sell it. Period.

 

[Twowolves]

Actually if I owned a game store, I wouldn't be selling 4th edition at all.
Any way, in any store I've worked in, you get it from the distributor, you get it on the shelves and sell it. Period.

And when the people who sold you the books find out you broke an agreement that you voluntarily made with them to hold the books for a set release date, you don't get the next shipment of books from them, right?

If you ran a bookstore and you got the latest Harry Potter book early, you'd just sell that too? Nah, no lawsuits there. Duh.

Besides, you neatly sidestepped the whole issue of the FLGS owner who is playing by the rules getting screwed by someone else who has your attitude toward release dates. Nice morals.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Actually if I owned a game store, I wouldn't be selling 4th edition at all.
Any way, in any store I've worked in, you get it from the distributor, you get it on the shelves and sell it. Period.

Never worked in a store that sold music or movies eh?

 

[WhatGravitas]

Actually if I owned a game store, I wouldn't be selling 4th edition at all.
Any way, in any store I've worked in, you get it from the distributor, you get it on the shelves and sell it. Period.

That's probably why you don't own a game store - because if people want to buy 4E books from you, why wouldn't you sell'em?

Cheers, LT.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

I encountered the same thing:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=228854

Really, though, what's going to happen to these big booksellers? Will they be fined? I really doubt WotC is going to stop selling through buy.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, Waldenbooks -- each one of these stores has broken the street date.

The FLGS's would have been better off in many cases just ordering from Buy.com instead of their distributors.

 

[Breschau of Livonia]

Really, though, what's going to happen to these big booksellers? Will they be fined? I really doubt WotC is going to stop selling through buy.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, Waldenbooks -- each one of these stores has broken the street date.

I suspect that in pretty much all the big bookseller cases it is a matter of a local mistake - I really doubt that as a corporate entity Barnes & Noble, for example, sees D&D 4e as such a major thing that they want to sneak ahead of the release date and undercut other retailers. It is probably more a matter of shelving new releases and accidentally popping the books up - probably even more likely on Tuesday, the normal release day for new books. For example, my local Borders does not have any of the books on sale but a Waldenbooks a mile away has a 4e Monster Manual on its shelves - but no other 4e books.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Well, I'm sure WOTC will be happy to hear Amazon Japan kept to the street date. It will be the 6th in 3 hours and 40 minutes and the books did not come today. Apparently I will getthem tomorrow morning, probably an hour after I go to work.

 

[NarlethDrider]

I encountered the same thing:
.... Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, Waldenbooks -- each one of these stores has broken the street date.

The FLGS's would have been better off in many cases just ordering from Buy.com instead of their distributors.

theres no FLGS where I live

I wish my Barnes & Noble would violate the street date----I sure have pestered them this week---

 

[Scott_Rouse]

I encountered the same thing:

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=228854

Really, though, what's going to happen to these big booksellers? Will they be fined? I really doubt WotC is going to stop selling through buy.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, Waldenbooks -- each one of these stores has broken the street date.

The FLGS's would have been better off in many cases just ordering from Buy.com instead of their distributors.

It is taken very seriously .

For example in the book trade there is a tiered series of consequences that will be applied to accounts that break street date. It is like a three strikes policy with actions that include delayed future shipments of all books. That means an account may not get a new release on time and will miss out on initial release day.