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Re: Sybex Halo Strategy Guide
Posted By: mattd <peregrine74@hotmail.com>Date: 11/27/00 1:53 p.m.

In Response To: Sybex Halo Strategy Guide (Eric A. Meyer)

> 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!

See? SEE?

By the way, what book did you write?

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Replies:

Sybex Halo Strategy GuideEric A. Meyer 11/27/00 8:12 a.m.
     Re: Sybex Halo Strategy Guidemattd 11/27/00 1:53 p.m.
           Re: Sybex Halo Strategy GuideEric A. Meyer 11/27/00 4:15 p.m.
                 Re: Sybex Halo Strategy Guidedilbert 11/27/00 4:29 p.m.
                       Re: Sybex Halo Strategy GuideBrother of Steel 11/27/00 8:01 p.m.



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