As a recently published author myself, I can perhaps offer a little insight into the Amazon.com information and how seriously we should take it.
When Amazon.com puts up information on a book, it's usually going with information supplied by the publisher. The publication date, page count, and other such things are all the initial estimates that were made by the publisher and author at the beginning of the project. At one point, Amazon listed my then-forthcoming book as being 480 pages even though it wasn't quite finished, and even I didn't know how many pages long it would be when all was said and done (it ended up being 453). Amazon also gave a release date a couple of months in advance of the actual release date, and that didn't get changed until the book was practically out... which meant that for a few weeks, the site claimed the book was available for shipping when it hadn't even been printed!
Basically, this means that Sybex is confident enough that the title will be published that they released information about it, probably several months ago. So we can deduce that Sybex has serious plans to come out with that title by that author. The rest is pretty much noise.
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