Warship 2009

[linux]

I pre-ordered Conway's Warship 2009 (ISBN 1844860892) from Amazon UK late last year. Today I received an email stating that order had been cancelled because:

We are no longer able to offer this item for sale. Our supplier has informed us that this item has been discontinued and is no longer available.

This is probably just a typical Amazon screw-up; their page listing disappeared a month or two back and the book was due to be shipped about now.

Or it could be an attempt to wriggle out of their pre-order price discount, though admittedly that is a cynical interpretation.

Or maybe Conway's Warship really has just died.

Is anybody able to shed some light here?

[maxim]

I got the same massage, but I saw it today still offered, but not released on www.amazon.com.

[linux]

This morning Warship 2009 appeared on the publisher's website. I guess it just suffered the usual publishing delay.

http://www.anovabooks.com/products/prod ... 43&id=1248

[linux]

Several other online booksellers have now pulled Warship 2009 from sale.

Looking further I found this at http://twitter.com/AnovaBooks:

The new Warship 2009 is now on sale exclusive to our website.

Why have Anova decided to sell Warship 2009 only from their online shop? To improve their margins?

[linux]

Good news: today Warship 2009 is showing as "In stock on June 26, 2009" at amazon.com. Their current price is $32.97.

Non-US buyers not wanting to pay the full �30 cover price to Anova might want to wait and see if it returns to other online booksellers too; for example whsmith.co.uk today shows it as a pre-order for �19.20.