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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 6240638" data-attributes="member: 2174">Standard Amazon practice is to hold a reasonable amount of a given book (for some, that may be "3", while others would be in the hundreds or even thousands). When they run out, they order more from the book's distributor, with a quantity-per-book based on sales projections (Amazon in particular has tons of metrics for this). Generally with a mid-list book (at least for us) this would be in the high double digits or low triple digits, but with a core book it can be higher.It's possible that increased interest from the holiday season coupled with declining warehouse stock levels near the tail end of an edition more or less "cleared Amazon out," but if so they probably were stocking fewer than 50 copies of any of the books we're talking about (again, except the core). It will be interesting to see if this trend continues for more than another week or so, because if so that could be a sign that 4e is sold out on the direct distributor level and also sold out at a secondary book distribution safety net represented by companies like Ingram, where B&N (and I assume Amazon) often goes to restock their shelves if primary distributors are out of stock.It's an interesting scenario because right now "4e is completely sold out at distribution" and "Amazon is temporarily out of stock due to the holidays" are both plausible theories based on the books' current Amazon status. In a week or two, that will no longer be the case.</blockquote>

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