Mar-02-2012, 01:53 PM (UTC)
(Mar-02-2012, 12:55 PM (UTC))fool-ish Wrote: So why oh why am I sat here like piffy on a rock face, in the UK!! waiting until April 23rd?!!I mean, fancy not being able to get a copy until everyone else in the world has got theirs! 'Tis a mummers farce!
I agree!

I just had a look on the HarperCollins.co.uk site and they had this for publication dates:
Quote:UK:23 April 2012
Australia:01 March 2012
Very odd really as fans from the UK would be able to access the US version as easily as Aussie fans, thus sales for the UK version would be at risk for both locations, not just here Down Under.

(Mar-02-2012, 12:55 PM (UTC))fool-ish Wrote: I know there's nothing I can do about it, but just had to vent!
There is certainly something you can do about it if you want to


On Friday I trustingly mailed my only copy of A Fantasy Medley (which contains Robin's short story Words Like Coins) to an Aussie Hobb fan in the Newsgroup, whom I have never met, so I would be happy to do the same with CoD for you if you get desperate. No pressure at all to accept though if it gives you the heebie-jeebies or makes you uncomfortable. I'm not sure I would, given the same offer from someone else (especially those beings known as 'thul!!



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