Flying off the shelves

A week ago, I wrote about the blip in supplies of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP. My publisher (friends of ED) got onto the case immediately, and told me that 388 copies of the book were on the way to Amazon.com. You might think that would be enough to keep Amazon going for a while. Indeed it did—about one day. Now, although I’d love to sell that number of books in a day—and every day—for a sustained period, books about Dreamweaver and PHP don’t fall into the same category as Harry Potter. The reason the mountain of books disappeared so quickly is because of back orders waiting to be fulfilled.

I’ve just checked Amazon again—and on Monday morning (London time, 28 January), the book was back in stock, but there was only one copy left. Wow, this book is hot! Grab it while you can. Nothing pleases me more than to see my book fly off the shelves, but it’s equally frustrating to see readers unable to get hold of a copy because demand was higher than anticipated. I see that Amazon is now quoting 4 February as the date supplies should be back to normal. Let’s hope it’s no later than that, and preferably sooner.

1 comment January 28th, 2008