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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by rdt   » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:28 pm

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Seawolf509 wrote:Guys/Gals just do what I do... wait till the series is complete then buy all the books at once! No waiting!!
:lol:

Again, it depends on your age. And monthly expenses--imagine having to buy all the Honorverse books & anthologies, including how many more to come, all at once. Further, by then the hardcovers will be out of print for many of the earlier books.
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by AncientMariner   » Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:54 pm

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rbhawk wrote:Hi all,

I just send an e-mail to macmillan and asked for the date.
Got a reply after just one day. :)

Good Afternoon,

The current publication date for that title (ISBN 9780765321879) is 11/01/15.

Have a great day

MPS Customer Service Rep


Now we know.


I choose to believe that is January 11th, 2015! (plugs ears and starts rocking back and forth)
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by Randomiser   » Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:35 pm

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isaac_newton wrote:
:-( :-(
maybe snippet rate should slow down to 1/month or we will run out of book - unless it's a really massive book :-)


Actually, around another 40 snippets of about the current size on top of what we already have would come to about one third of a 230,000 word book, which wouldn't be impossible. Oh yuk, I just came up with an argument that it will be November 2015. The other one is that RFC has been dreadfully silent on this issue.
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by Marty   » Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:07 pm

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So... November 2015 - are we there yet? :?
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by Dahak   » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:05 pm

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ksandgren wrote:Dahak lists a Sept 2015 release date as probable on his site. RFC posted that the Delivery was late for a planned summer 2015 release, that TOR is typically 12 months minimum (with a late August delivery to TOR that makes for a late August or early Sep release date.) TOR has not yet published a date picked up by Amazon or Barnes and Noble. It will come when TOR decides its time and I'm sure many eager readers/posters will gladly post here whenever they get a clue from their suppliers.


Yeah, that's what I put... and I forget the rationalization as to why I picked that month, probably for the 12 month-ish publication timeframe.
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by layman   » Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:16 am

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rbhawk wrote:Hi all,

I just send an e-mail to macmillan and asked for the date.
Got a reply after just one day. :)

Good Afternoon,

The current publication date for that title (ISBN 9780765321879) is 11/01/15.

Have a great day

MPS Customer Service Rep


Now we know.


Guys do you know how to properly read a dates??
Its 11 January 2015 not 01 November 2015.
Most common system to write a date is:
day - month - year or year - month – day

Layman
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by garfield   » Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:16 am

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layman wrote:
Guys do you know how to properly read a dates??
Its 11 January 2015 not 01 November 2015.
Most common system to write a date is:
day - month - year or year - month – day

Layman


I really wish it was so - maybe if he eMailed Macmillan in the UK???

Unfortunately here in the states the dominant date format is mm/dd/yyyy.
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by rbhawk   » Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:29 am

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layman wrote:
Guys do you know how to properly read a dates??
Its 11 January 2015 not 01 November 2015.
Most common system to write a date is:
day - month - year or year - month – day

Layman


The email was to and from macmillan in the US.
They would use the US date format.
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by River Monster   » Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:35 pm

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Okay, a couple of factors at work here, both of which feed into each other.

The first is, as Scotty put it, "I cannae change the laws of physics, Captain." Print runs have to be scheduled, and the bigger the job, the harder they are to schedule. And let's face facts, a Safehold book constitutes a substantial amount of ink & paper. A hardbound print run with dust jackets and such can be over a month!

The second is contractual. The publisher is already committed to providing certain books to distributors at certain times. So if they bump a book from the queue to print HFQ, they probably stand to lose more money than they'll make from HFQ.

And also, even in the age of digital publishing, it takes time to edit & lay out a book.

Be patient, guys. I want it NOW too.
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Re: Next Safehold Book
Post by Seawolf509   » Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:44 pm

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rdt wrote:
Seawolf509 wrote:Guys/Gals just do what I do... wait till the series is complete then buy all the books at once! No waiting!!
:lol:

Again, it depends on your age. And monthly expenses--imagine having to buy all the Honorverse books & anthologies, including how many more to come, all at once. Further, by then the hardcovers will be out of print for many of the earlier books.


It was a joke. yeash!
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