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Emperor's Soul Sighted in the Wild!


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We've had a few reports of people being able to acquire The Emperor's Soul already! First, two days ago, our member Yados was able to grab one at the downtown Brooklyn Barnes & Noble. And today, Rubix (Josh) saw that the Jordan Landing Barnes & Noble in West Jordan, Utah had 23 in stock. (UPDATE: I have managed to spot six copies in Montana, and another member reports finding some in Maine) So maybe check your local bookstore and see if you can acquire a copy.

If you do manage to get one, no spoilers on the forums on it, even in Cosmere Theories (for now, until the official sell date). We will probably make a special spoiler board for it soon, if you acquire it.

It seems that street dates aren't really hard-and-fast for small publishers, but buying it earlier may have a negative effect on its sales ranking. Brandon's assistant, Peter, said this about it:

Strict embargoes are only for big publishers, really. With everyone else, the bookstore puts it on the shelf when they receive it. Actually, even with big publishers, it only matters for big books. Alcatraz books typically showed up on shelves as many as 6 weeks early. And with Brandon's Tor books, they didn't get strict until Way of Kings.

Buying it early can hurt a book's ranking on bestseller charts, because initial sales are spread out over a few weeks instead of being all in one week. However, we don't know anything about the trade paperback fiction bestseller list, which we have never tried to compete on.

So, obviously, you should just buy one copy now and one in November. ;)

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Geez! I placed this order 9/16/12, knowing that I wouldn't receive it till at least a couple of months later! Okay, whatever! All I have to say is that this novel better arrive on time! I'm on a reading schedule for the year!

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Um, I pre-ordered this from Amazon.com and I just received an email saying it just shipped and it even has tracking information. It is in PA right now. Very Excited.

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just saw this and called local store and they have it will get on lunch break in 30 mins. very happy.

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Very cool it is being shipped from Amazon. Very interesting Amazon's changing the ship date. I mean, after all, it says it is in stock right now.

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Yeah! Amazon said yesterday that it will ship to arrive between 10/16 and 10/18! I'm looking forward to every delivery to my home mail box in the next several days!

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Ordered from Amazon last night! Should get here by Monday-Wednesday next week, and when I finish it I'm giving it to Tulir to read

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Does anyone know when the ebook for Emperor's Soul will be released?

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Peter said on Amazon that the ebook should be released around November 12th, and that Brandon will be doing the same type of deal he did with Legion. If you buy an actual copy of The Emperor's Soul, then you'll get a free ebook copy to boot.

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Thanks, all of Brandons other books are on my kindle so i'd like to keep them all in the same media form.

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