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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morgenstern" data-source="post: 2838709" data-attributes="member: 5485">Fair enough. I'm just saying we should be examining their silence in light of past behavior. If they've been good about promptly announcing cancellations in the past, then this is odd. But 2 different distributors closing out their pre-orders sounds a lot like conducting business rather than saving face.Agreed on all counts. Both that they will be compelled to say somehing fairly soon if the book doesn't hit shelves, and that any such action will take place in real world time - which is often the last possible second when you have to give out bad news <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />.Again, I think you're looking at it backwards. Anouncements aren't about the advantage they give customers, they are about the advantage they give the company - and it seems clear that in general, making a damaging announcement about a line that may be on shakey ground is something you don't rush into unless you have a very personal relationship with your customers. IF (note the qualifing value of this word) distributors are hearing about it now, the decision was probably made some time ago. Probably a public statement was planned for around the same time and they didn't expect the word to get out so quickly. Or maybe we've just got bad intel and nothing's up with this book <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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