A little help from our friends, 2.0

[kinzel]

Amended* -- the listing is to be removed ... so what's below is only part of what was orignally here ....

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I don't know what stupidity this is, but TSCbooks -- see someone with a bad idea and a bad sense of timing -- claims to be selling a copy of Fledgling for $1000.

This company is offering something that shouldn't exist. If they have it, you shouldn't buy it. The book isn't due until this summer, and if this is some kind of a leaked pre-production copy, it shouldn't be on sale. If it is something that they constructed themselves from our web serialization, then it shouldn't be available either.

So, we're complaining. TSCbooks, if you think this is a good joke, please explain it. Carefully.
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*I have amended this to take down the link to the former amazon listing of this book; we've been informed that the listing was in error.

Note to Liaden readers, fans, and friends: if you come to us at Worldcon asking us to sign a Fledgling you bought in the spring we'll be more than a little disappointed.

Comments

[debmats.livejournal.com]

Hi Steve -
Michelle Sagara msagara has the same issue with TSCbooks. She says she found a listing for Maria V. Snyder book too.

[spiffikins]

they're doing the same to Laura Anne Gilman...

I AM TSCBOOKS

[(Anonymous)]

I do not have this book, this item was listed for sale on Amazon.com in error.

When an item is back-ordered, unavailable, or otherwise "Out of Stock", the quickest way to prevent someone from buying that unavailable item is to simply raise the price of that item (the book in question here) to some point where the item is so expensive that no one of the planet earth would buy it anyway.

Why is such a big deal being made about an item that I listed for sale in error? No one would have ever attempted to buy this item, if you checked out my Amazon account, you would see that I have over 190,000 different titles for sale - and with such a massive inventory spread out across 36 warehouses from coast to coast, is it that hard to conclude that the listing of this book was a simple error? Please forgive me for my mistake. This book was not listed intentionally, it was listed when one of my inventory servers uploaded a database file into the Amazon servers, and one byte of data in a 17MB text file was apparently corrupted and caused an incorrect ISBN to be offered for sale. This was in no way done intentionally. If I had to manually list 190,000 books myself, it would take a lifetime - this is all done with computerized inventories, and dozens of ICM's scanning local inventory into local databases - those local databases merging into Corporate databases, then that corporate database being fed to Amazon..... the error could have happened anywhere along the chain...

I did not intend to offend anyone, I did not intend to cause any trouble for anyone, I certainly was not trying to defraud anyone and I never intended to list this item for sale.