> Behalf Of Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM
>
> I am not happy. _Kiln People_ will be published in January 2002, and will
> probably be hardcover. Add a year till the paperback version
> comes out, and
> several more months before the paperback edition will be for sale
> in Europe,
> and it will probably be close to XMas 2003 before I will get my copy...
> :-(
>
> The _Illustrated Guide_ will be published Summer 2002, so it will probably
> be Spring 2004 or something before it appears on the shelves of European
> bookstores. :-(
>
> Before anyone suggests ordering them from Amazon: Nah. With exchange rates
> and costs for shipping and handling being what they are, ordering
> on-line is
> only useful when ordering a pile of books at once. Otherwise, waiting for
> the books and buying them once they are published here is a lot cheaper
> (even with book prices being what they are nowadays).
>
> Does anyone know if "Forgiveness" will be published in Europe?
Don't you have any bookstores that do their own direct importing? Here in
Melbourne, I know I'll be able to get my hands on copies of Kiln People and
the Illustrated Guide within a week or so of the US publication date. Of
course, I'll have to pay double the US cover price to do so - the Pacific
Peso being just above the US$0.50 mark.
Of course, I shouldn't complain too much about the exchange rate seeing as
I'm working for a company that exports its products in US$, so the basic
song around here is "We're in the money..."
Alternatively, what about a few of you European types getting together to
place a bulk order when these come out, so that you all spread the Euro
cost?
Brett
