[HPforGrownups] Preordered copy of book 6

[Melete]

No: HPFGUIDX 130810



--- Chancie  <chnc1024 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> >
> > Hey, someone I work with, said that the place
> where he preordered his
> book  
> > from, says he'll get it 2 weeks early because that
> store will get their
> books 2 
> >  weeks before the 16th. > > Chancie:
> 
> Well, I hate to be rude, but your co-worker is a big
> fat liar!  NO ONE
> is allowed to release the book prior to July 16 at
> 12:01am.  Even if
> the stores get the book early, they would be at risk
> of not being allowed
> to carry the books at all anymore, and NO store is
> going to pass that up.


I wanted to confirm with Chancie on this.  I work at a
bookstore full time and there is no way we A. would
get them that early.  It's usually within the same
week, or B. sell them early.

Preordering a copy to our store means that the
customer will have a copy held for them specifically
(in case for some unknown reason the distributing
centers were not to send enough copies for all the
customers.)  For those particular customers, we also
hold them through the weekend.  For customer who pay
for a ship to home copy, we are told by the company
that we are UPS will ship it to their mail centers on
the 15th so that it will make it to their homes on the
16th.  Even on this I'm a bit foggy except that they
will try their hardest to get it to them sometime on
the 16th.  

For the last book we received a big, huge shipment a
few days prior to the book sale.   The boxes were kept
locked up until the day of the party.  On that day the
boxes were moved up to the cash registers and lined up
behind them.   With none being opened up until right
before the first sale.  We don't even get to peak at
the book before the customers at all.  Which is fine
with me to be honest, I like that type of security
actually.  It really heightens the tension and
excitement with all of us booksellers as well. 

>From what I understand, there a few major chains of
stores that are not being allowed this year to sell
Harry Potter because they did break the sale date last
time.  You can imagine what a fiscal loss this is for
a bookstore to be refused such a huge booksale by the
publishers.   This is why strict-on-sale dates are so
regimentally kept.


Ellyddan



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