Hungary?!?
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TwinBahamut said:
Well, Morbiczer has been posting here since 2004. This is the post from Morbiczer last year where he says his local store had the Fiendish Codex II a few weeks early. In later posts in the same thread he gives spoilers for what was in there. I don't have the FCII, but were his previews correct?
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The mafia runs Budapest and much of the rest of the country. If you want something in that country and have the money you can get it. And if there is an early draft of the book around someone can get their hands on it print a simplified version of the cover, and publish it for cheap in order to make a buck. Budapest is wonderful if you are a tourist doing daytime tourist things, but be careful with the nightlife.
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Back in the eighties - when I was the TSR distributor of Sweden - we sometimes got stuff quite early. Even before the release month given in The Dragon.
TSR never communicated any "official street dates" in those days (and there were no Internet forums to read about them in), but we always operated by "if it's delivered, it goes on the shelves". So I wouldn't see it as unreasonable that a hungarian shop got it a few weeks before the "street date", but never was told about it/disregarded it.
TSR never communicated any "official street dates" in those days (and there were no Internet forums to read about them in), but we always operated by "if it's delivered, it goes on the shelves". So I wouldn't see it as unreasonable that a hungarian shop got it a few weeks before the "street date", but never was told about it/disregarded it.
It is rather normal that publisher start sending out books to stores before the release date. After all those stores are expected to start selling those books at release date and not two weeks after the release date which would be the case when the publisher waited with shipping those books to the store till release date.
And depending on the store and legal situation it can happen that books (or other articles) are sold underhand or even openly before the official release date.
And depending on the store and legal situation it can happen that books (or other articles) are sold underhand or even openly before the official release date.
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Alisair Longreach
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Some stores in some countries sometimes get early deliveries of D&D books. I got my copy of the Forgotten Realms Setting late May 2001 but the book had a release date in June. I have also managed to get the 3.5 core rulebooks one week early.
1. There was a Hungarian language version of 3.0 books, many months (years?) after the English release. There were no 3.5 Hungarian language books.
2. You can buy "original" English D&D books here, sometimes they are late, sometimes they are on time. I guess they get a shipment every few months, so some releases are late, some early.
3. FLGS get books sometimes (always?) before their official release date (= street date).
4. I didn't buy the book, just looked through it in my FLGS.
5. I personally would be surprised if the people at my FLGS would know about any official release date.
6. "The mafia runs Budapest and much of the rest of the country. If you want something in that country and have the money you can get it. And if there is an early draft of the book around someone can get their hands on it print a simplified version of the cover, and publish it for cheap in order to make a buck."
Sorry, but this is a blatant lie.
2. You can buy "original" English D&D books here, sometimes they are late, sometimes they are on time. I guess they get a shipment every few months, so some releases are late, some early.
3. FLGS get books sometimes (always?) before their official release date (= street date).
4. I didn't buy the book, just looked through it in my FLGS.
5. I personally would be surprised if the people at my FLGS would know about any official release date.
6. "The mafia runs Budapest and much of the rest of the country. If you want something in that country and have the money you can get it. And if there is an early draft of the book around someone can get their hands on it print a simplified version of the cover, and publish it for cheap in order to make a buck."
Sorry, but this is a blatant lie.
