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When individual resellers receive their copies is not under any control of DSL. I can tell you that the book sold very well all three days at Linux World. I had a great time.

we want pics from the LinuxWorld ;)

Didn't have a camera, but several did take pics at our booth.
ke4nt1 was there and did take pics. I hope he will post them or send them along to me and I will.

Overall LinuxWorld was very server oriented and in fact, shared the convention center with NGDC. Next Generation Data Center. Liitle desktop stuff. The ".org" pavillion was the most interesting part for me. I got a hands on with a OLPC. Was not impressed with it both look and feel hardware and UI. I also got to see the Classmate laptop and even booted DSL on it! The Classmate has a wide screen, still DSL defaults looked good. DSL ran great on its 900Mhz /256MB. Also, booted DSL on a Fijisu tablet PC, expensive, $2000, but still very nice. I think some vendor's did not like it that John and I were trying DSL on their new hardware. Some chased us away. Still it was fun to see DSL run these new machines. Of course, we could only see the booted DSL desktop. We could not test evey feature. Wish the eee pc701 was there, but seems like the Classmate is similiar in specs.

Used the contact form on phptr.com/infomit.com to check availability. My question:

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http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132360101
shows publication date as Published Jul 18, 2007. Book was available at last week's Linux World, but Amazon shows "Usually ships within 4 to 6 weeks." Other vendors show a variety of dates. What's up?

Their answer:

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...The link you provided me is for the PDF downloadable version of the book. Once you purchase it, it will be available to you as soon as you download it.
Unfortunately, the actual Paperback with the CD version of the book (ISBN 978-0132338691) has not yet been released. I see a copyright date of 2008 on it, which means the book will not be recently until early next year. It will have a list price of $39.99.
Since the physical book has not been released, that is why you are getting a variety of dates from vendors....

Nice that they replied, but I find it odd that they quote copyright 2008 with no physical availability while physical copies were at Linux World and Amazon, Bookpool, B&N all claim availabiltiy "real soon now." (For some value of "real soon now." ;-)

Confused? So am I.

Perhaps there is a delay in printing?
Perhaps the printer is back logged with Harry Potter orders

Having never been through this process, I am only guessing.
Still it is frustrating as any book on computers is time sensitive.

I have since received my author's copy and it is copyright 2008 First printing Aug 2007.

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