Yados Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I bought it. A month ago. Used. ... What is happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralis00 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I'm not sure what you mean? I bought my copy in Barnes and Noble. New. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yados Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Sorry if that was confusing. I'm sending books to my girlfriend's brother now that I have Amazon prime and I can basically ship anywhere for free. He's read Mistborn so I was going to send him Alloy. But I couldn't. It's not out yet, officially. This confused me since I bought it second hand at Housing Works during the first week of September. So not only did it break shelf date, but someone else bought it, read it, and flipped it. Naturally, I'd assumed from its presence in a used book store that it had been out for some time. So I thought it was amusing. Especially what with my recent history of acquiring new books early, I find out that I got this one very early quite by accident and didn't realize until a month later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_here Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Alloy of Law was avaliable on Nook and on a school library shelf at least a year ago. Now, street date on Emperor's Soul was broken pretty badly, but that's in a different series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozndevl Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 He is talking about the mass-market paperback, the kind that you can stuff in your front jeans pocket if you are a big buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAhlstrom Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Weird, but yeah, it wasn't supposed to come out until October 30th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkthinker Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Isn't a year about standard? I mean, I know there's some stretch, but a year always seemed like a good round figure for the hardback-to-paperback conversion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yados Posted October 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 (edited) I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Alloy of Law was avaliable on Nook and on a school library shelf at least a year ago. Now, street date on Emperor's Soul was broken pretty badly, but that's in a different series. Mass-market paperback. I suppose that post doesn't make any sense without that specification. Not really a big deal... which was why I didn't think anything of it at the time. Isn't a year about standard? I mean, I know there's some stretch, but a year always seemed like a good round figure for the hardback-to-paperback conversion. Yeah, it was a thoroughly unremarkable event. I was mostly just surprised that the mass-market wasn't out yet. Seeing it a month ago, used and resold, seemed pretty normal. Edited October 18, 2012 by firstRainbowRose Double post. Please be careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstRainbowRose Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Is it possible that you actually picked up an ARC? They're usually paperback, but the size is usually the same as a hardback novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralis00 Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 oh. Paperback. Thats an important detail there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yados Posted October 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Is it possible that you actually picked up an ARC? They're usually paperback, but the size is usually the same as a hardback novel. It crossed my mind, but it's definitely mass-market sized and there's no indication anywhere that it's an ARC in the front-matter. What did strike me as odd was that the copyright date is 2011. Shouldn't it be 2012? Or does the massmarket copyright go off of when the Hardcover was first published? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkthinker Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Are there ARCs for paperbacks? 'Cause now I want to see a picture of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yados Posted October 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Are there ARCs for paperbacks? 'Cause now I want to see a picture of this. Just took some. Doing so forced me to read the whole publisher's page. Looks like it's the "First International Mass Market Edition: July 2012" ... but published in the US. What's that? The price is in US and Canadian like always. I checked Amazon.ca to see if this was the Canadian version, but it comes out there on October 30th as well. Now I'm even more confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady_Yasha Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 I'm pretty sure I picked up a paperback Alloy last year a month after it was published. Waterstones say they've published it November of last year (paperback, I made sure) so I'm not sure what you mean? But I just checked and they also have another version (paperback again) that's released the 1st of November. I've put some links up below to the two. http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/brandon+sanderson/the+alloy+of+law/8446589/ http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/brandon+sanderson/the+alloy+of+law/8446590/ I'm confused o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAhlstrom Posted October 20, 2012 Report Share Posted October 20, 2012 Lyrebon, that is the UK trade paperback and UK mass market paperback. I'm asking Tor about this international mass market thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yados Posted October 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 I'm asking Tor about this international mass market thing. Whoa, cool. Did I stumble upon something previously unknown? I'm chuffed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAhlstrom Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 Well I didn't know about it. But it would explain why we had to do the proofs so long ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady_Yasha Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 Lyrebon, that is the UK trade paperback and UK mass market paperback. I'm asking Tor about this international mass market thing. Ah, I see. I'm just now learning of that difference. Thanks Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straff Venture Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 Does anyone know who draws the Uk covers? I'm curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAhlstrom Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 I asked Tor about this and they said they printed 2000 copies for the open market. That means outside the US and Canada and UK/Australia/NZ. No telling how it ended up in a used bookstore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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