Small Stakes Hold \'em will NOT be in your local Barnes and Noble today
 

Hi,

I just wanted to make sure everyone is clear on this, because I've gotten a couple of disappointed emails already today.

Today, July 15th, the book is still BEING PRINTED. The very first finished books should be available TO MASON either today or tomorrow (assuming there are no hiccups in the printing).

The next step, which should begin to happen either tomorrow or early next week, is Mason distributes these first books to retailers. The first copies will go to ConJelCo and ProfessionalPoker.com, the two outlets offering pre-orders. Then Mason will send boxes of books to other retailers who have ordered them, including Borders.

Barnes and Noble has a different process for approving books from small presses than Borders, so they will get their books later still.

So the timeline (as I understand it... Mason is obviously more of an authority than I am, but I'm stepping in because he's busy at the printer) is roughly:

Today-Monday: Mason gets copies of the book from the printer
Tomorrow-Tuesday: Mason delivers copies of books to ConJelCo and ProfessionalPoker.com (and they will ship them to people promptly, but due to the volume of orders, it might take a day or two)
Next Week-Week after that: Mason ships books to retailers including Borders and Amazon.

Obviously, Mason will ship the books to a Borders warehouse, and then the Borders people are responsible for getting the books from that warehouse to each retail store. So give them some time to do that as well.

So I'd expect to see people who pre-ordered get their copies sometime next week, and then copies in Borders sometimes in the two weeks after that.

So don't run out to Barnes and Noble today, expecting to pick up a copy. Hope no one is too disappointed, and I also hope you guys understand the timetable now.

(BTW, don't believe what the "guy at the Borders" tells you. Apparently he is sort of clueless... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] )

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Any chance we could get a post after IT has been delivered to Gambler's General Store and Gambler's Book Club?

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Any chance we could get a post after IT has been delivered to Gambler's General Store and Gambler's Book Club?

I'm not in Vegas right now, so unfortunately I can't go check. So your best hope of getting this info is from Mason.

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I know Barnes & Noble(in the Buffalo area) won't put the book on their shelves until the 28th.

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So the timeline (as I understand it... Mason is obviously more of an authority than I am, but I'm stepping in because he's busy at the printer) is roughly:


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Being a computer guy I get a mental picture of Mason sitting at his desk printing copies of the book on an old Deskjet. Yikes! No wonder they don't have them at Borders this week.

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I work in the receiving dept. of a B&N here in Boston, and I felt inclined to look for the book in the back room today, knowing full well that it wouldn't be there. In fact, it seems that we don't even have it "on order," and there is no price available. Obviously I had the good sense to pre order it from conjelco, but the discout would have been nice.

Anyway, the point is I've already been hyping the book up to a few other poker playing employees, who will in turn (hopefully) hype it up and sell it like crazy out on the book floor. I've done all I can do, it's out of my hands.

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Better to go straight to the hand that feeds you. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I called B&N in Buffalo today just out of curiousity(I preordered)and they told me it was ordered, had not been received, and they could not be put it on the shelf until the 28th. Then they asked me if I'd like to reserve a copy. Ha!

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I've done all I can do

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and what exactly is that??

spread the gospel of Ed (and help him earn some well-deserved income)??
OR
try to ruin the games in your area??


sorry Ed....but the only people that i'm talking to about this book are of the non-poker playing variety.

i hope you do very well with this of course.
but i don't want my opponents actually learning how to play.


i'm not really that concerned of course. i've done my part (by purchasing a copy) and don't really think THAT many more players will improve their game THAT dramatically via this book. a few semi-studious types might escape non-fish status...but i am hopeful the shark-to-fish ratio won't be too dramatically affected by SSHE.


if my local 4/8 game gets rock-tight with a bunch of Miller-ites though i'm going to have a word or two with you.

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if my local 4/8 game gets rock-tight with a bunch of Miller-ites though i'm going to have a word or two with you.

You can have all the words you want, but if someone doesn't buy me a beer first, I can't promise that I'll be listening. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Any chance we could get a post after IT has been delivered to Gambler's General Store and Gambler's Book Club?

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If you want it that urgently and you dont mind a second hand copy i'll send you mine in the morning.

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The former.

Basically for every one WSSHE reccomendation, we'll reccomend Play Poker Like the Pros 3 or 4 times.

That way, Ed gets his cash, and the games stay good. Everyone wins. (Well, almost everyone)

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If you want it that urgently

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It's not about wanting in urgently. It's about not wanting to load a 2 year-old and a 2 month-old into the car for a wasted trip.

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Why not just order it online?

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It's not about wanting in urgently. It's about not wanting to load a 2 year-old and a 2 month-old into the car for a wasted trip.

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Gambler's has a phone now: 702-382-7555 or 1-800-522-1777

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Gambler's has a phone now:

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Yesterday, in person, the clerk didn't know what I was talking about, I had to point to the flier. I really don't like my chances of getting an accurate answer on the phone.

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I really don't like my chances of getting an accurate answer on the phone.

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Make him read the hand off the cover to prove he's really got it. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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They have it right now.

MM

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Thank you very much, Mason.

When will it available at Amazon proper?.
 

I can see that it's available at Amazon only thru a re-seller (proffessional poker or something?).

I need to order it directly from Amazon, as I need to bundle it with a bunch of other books for Intl' shipment.

p.s.: Is an electronic version available?. ebook or pdf or something?.

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I still haven't gotten confirmation for my order. :-/

I ordered under one email address, and paid with a neteller account which is connected to a different email address. I sent an email to conjelco from the first email addresss asking for confirmation and a week and a half later I still have no reply.

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Basically for every one WSSHE reccomendation, we'll reccomend Play Poker Like the Pros 3 or 4 times.

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Recently, someone told me "I bought a copy of that Hellmuth poker book for Mike". I plan to, but haven't read it, however I have heard about it. My first thought was "That may not be the best beginners book for you to learn from", but I actually said "That's great - I haven't read it yet." [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I ordered this book with 3 others, are all these going to be shipped together or will i get the other 3 first? I made the order about a week ago so it seems like they are going to be shipped all together, but i am in the UK so the first 3 may have already been shipped?

Thanks.

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I tried to order from Amazon and it said it won't ship until about September or something so I cancelled hoping I could get it sooner somewhere. That Amazon price is great though [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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When I checked Amazon yesterday they wanted full list price for it. :P

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Ordered mine through Barnes and Noble online yesterday. My confirmation says the book will ship on July 28th. If I had seen this thread before today I would not have ordered through Barnes and Noble. I'm really looking forward to reading your book.

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Are there any B&M stores that have it yet?

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I called my local Borders today and they said it hasn't even shipped yet. I believe that I read earlier where it was stated that Borders would get the book before Barnes & Noble.

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my borders store is expecting it to arrive "any day now. we have five on order." well, that was monday. today is friday. frustrated? yes, but only b/c i discovered the forum (and therefore the book) after the publishing date. so i thought borders would have it in a timely fashion, but whatever.

best part is, there is only one borders store in a 15 mile radius of milwaukee. they ordered only 5 books. i know, bad for ed, but good for the rest of us. ok, i'm done.

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I just was at B&N today, They have the book, just not at the store I went to, so they ordered it for me and it should be here in 3 to 7 days.

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best part is, there is only one borders store in a 15 mile radius of milwaukee. they ordered only 5 books. i know, bad for ed, but good for the rest of us. ok, i'm done.

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i don't know....5 advanced orders for a book that isn't even out yet at just one store sure sounds like a lot to me.
i bet that's more advanced orders then HEFAP, WLLHE or PPLTP received.

and that's just the people who ordered it in advance...a lot more then that won't bother to order and will just wait for it to arrive on the shelves.


it sounds like the stores are having to field a bunch of calls from people wondering 'when the hell are you getting SSHE'.
i bet the employees are wondering 'what on earth is the big freaking deal with this SSHE book that we keep getting all these phone-calls about?'



demand like that ain't too shabby for a 24-year-old first-time writer.