Forbes Article about leaked PDFS

[Puggins]

Am I to believe that the implication of this statement is that Buy.com has only slightly more than 1000 preorders? That sounds rather low.

Buy.com had the gift set (the GIFT SET, not the PHB) for a slightly higher price than Amazon.com.

The number of people who use buy.com is (putting this charitably) somewhat smaller than the number of people who use amazon.

Given buy.com's popularity versus amazon (especially for books, for goodness sake), 1000 copies of the gift set sounds pretty reasonable.

 

[Dragonblade]

I'm thinking this is the work a really slow news cycle or a well-placed nerd. Any speculation as to which?

The author was very well-informed. Nothing any good researcher can't figure out, but I would have a hard time believing the author was not an EN World member.

 

[Nail]

Only ~1000 pre-orders on Buy.Com?

That's low. Too low. Sucks!

 

[Sojorn]

Am I to believe that the implication of this statement is that Buy.com has only slightly more than 1000 preorders? That sounds rather low.

It was either an intentional slip-up to increase sales despite offering it for more than amazon (as the sales rank on buy.com has jumped an insane amount since the news has spread that they shipped some early) or a happy accident for them.

Well, maybe not so happy since they broke the street date.

Amazon seems to easily have racked up hundreds of thousands of pre-orders at this point if the data about their sales ranks is to be believed, especially over the period of 6 months.

 

[Korgoth]

Here's hoping they do catch that "rogue" who leaked the documents. The Rouse can't summon an ogre, but I assume he's more than capable of summoning cops and lawyers.

 

[Protagonist]

Awesome Verys got a mention in the article.

Edit: Ninja'd. Must learn to read faster.

I think for his work with the pre-release document he should change his name from Verys Arkon to Verys Awesome ^^

 

[AllisterH]

YOWSERS...

Somehow I get the impression that even Amazon.com isn't that happy about this either.

Was buy.com involved in the early HP release problems? I hope not otherwise I can see Amazon losing their patience.

 

[Cirex]

Only ~1000 pre-orders on Buy.Com?

That's low. Too low. Sucks!

It says No more than 100 (less than 10% of Buy.com's total preorders for the books.
If there were four billions of preorders, 100 would still be less than 10% of total.

It's bad wording by the author.

 

[malraux]

It says No more than 100 (less than 10% of Buy.com's total preorders for the books.

If there were four billions of preorders, 100 would still be less than 10% of total.

It's bad wording by the author.

It's more likely bad wording by the Buy.com press agent. But still, given the desire to minimize this, I'd assume that if there were 10,000 preorders, the quote would have said 1%. But yes, all we know for sure is that if x is the number of preorders, x > 1000.

 

[Darkwolf71]

I would have a hard time believing the author was not an EN World member.

I don't know about that.

And fans have been taking notes. Careful notes. Andrew White, a 31-year-old in Calgary, Canada, compiled every rule and statistic mentioned in those tidbits and published his own "4 th Edition Pre-Release Rules Compilation" reference. White's project turned into a massive engineering feat itself, going through 12 revisions involving 40 people, and consuming at least 150 hours of White's life. He released an 86-page final version on Thursday. In his spare time, White is working on a doctoral degree in archeology.

Even worse for Hasbro<snip>

Notice that the bolded part makes it sound as if the compilation here at ENWorld was some kind of attempt at pirating the game. He very nearly equates it to the leaked PDFs. I mean, it could be an ENWorlder, but that sounds like an outsider to me.