More on the blurb brouhaha

[Dave Monroe]

"It's nearly unheard of for Amazon to list a book
that's so ephemeral," to be accurate.  About the
quote, that is, not about amazon.  But amazon listed,
for example, these as well for years before actual
publication (I know, I watched, waited, so ...) ...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816643415/sr=8-2/qid=1153854999/ref=sr_1_2/103-1356613-1521444?ie=UTF8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845201973/ref=reg_hu-wl_mrai-recs/103-1356613-1521444?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

The release date was at least updated here from its
pervious target date ca. LAST September, but ...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826415482/sr=1-1/qid=1153855283/ref=sr_1_1/103-1356613-1521444?ie=UTF8&s=books

Although, I will say, they've never in all the times
I've checked for the past few years listed that
Berressem edited volume from my previous post (the
existence of which I STILL haven't confirmed), so ...

Point being, well, I'VE certainly heard of such
"goings-on," and, if I flog my memory ...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Here's the direct link to that first Boston Globe
> piece describing the "nearly unheard of" goings-on
> at Amazon.com last week:
> 
> http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2006/07/spanning_the_pe.html

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