News: Amazon.com Muddies The CBT Waters...

Sabrina wrote us saying that she had gotten an e-mail from Amazon.com indicating that their stock of the Comic Book Tattoo limited edition hardcover had been replenished and, sure enough, the pre-order button over yonder is active again. We’re not sure how this jives with the word from Rantz that the limited edition is sold out but we would be remiss not to at least pass on the news. As there are only 1,000 of this slipcase-enclosed, hardcover editions signed by Tori, if Amazon really does have additional copies, they probably don’t have very many and you may want to act fast.

UPDATE: Rantz has confirmed that Amazon did receive an additional allotment of the limited edition. However, as we speculated, it is a small number so acting fast is recommended.

In the interest of the free market economy, it would be wrong for us not to point out that other booksellers such as Barnes & Noble, Powells, Borders and Tower Books, just to name a few, are still taking pre-orders for the limited edition as well. DavidMackGuide.com also has a list of stores to pre-order or, in the next week or two, purchase from. We also recommend the Comic Shop Locator Service if you want to patronize a local, independent store in your area. In fact, at this point, a local comic shop may be your best chance of finding a copy of the limited edition if it turns out the online booksellers are really blowing smoke with their pre-order pages.

On a related note, Mark Bednarz and susan received notice from Amazon that the estimated delivery date for their CBT shipments had been moved back to July 28th – 30th. While we can’t say for sure, we suspect that Amazon may be correcting the publication date for the book since, as ToriAmos.com says, the paperback and hardcover editions will be available in comic shops on July 23rd and everywhere else on July 29th while whatever copies of the limited edition do make it to stores will be available on July 30th.

UPDATE: And at least one person reports receiving confirmation that their copy of the book has shipped. Perhaps there is a paperback vs. hardcover vs. limited edition domension to be factored in here as well….