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DiCarlo available (or soon will be)
DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime is now available for purchase in hardcover, trade paperback and e-book formats for Kindle and Nook/iBooks. Well, sort of. Whether it is available to you at this moment depends in large part on where you are looking for it. Purchase links to the current sellers (basically the publisher's bookstore, though Amazon is carrying the Kindle version) are available on the book website, buffalomob.com, along with plenty of interesting information about the book and its authors.
Due to the nature of the book-catalog process, it could be another month or so before DiCarlo appears in Amazon.com (as I mentioned, the Kindle version is there already) or Barnes and Noble. As I understand it, the ISBN information needs to be circulated, the distributor needs to manually update a database and then booksellers need to update their databases and each update is performed on a monthly basis ... whatever.
There is an additional wrinkle involved with the Nook and iBooks EPUB-format e-books, as those must be individually authorized before they can go on sale through B&N and the Apple store. I don't really know what they do to authorize books or how long it takes, and I'm trying my best not to be in any way critical of the EPUB Ministry of Acceptable Books (guess I just failed). I am assured that the process has begun and must be content with that information.
Bottom line is this. If you want DiCarlo now, it is available in all formats through the limited channels shown on the website. If you want to buy it through your favorite seller, you may need to wait just a bit longer (should be there long before Christmas!). That's the book-biz.
Due to the nature of the book-catalog process, it could be another month or so before DiCarlo appears in Amazon.com (as I mentioned, the Kindle version is there already) or Barnes and Noble. As I understand it, the ISBN information needs to be circulated, the distributor needs to manually update a database and then booksellers need to update their databases and each update is performed on a monthly basis ... whatever.
There is an additional wrinkle involved with the Nook and iBooks EPUB-format e-books, as those must be individually authorized before they can go on sale through B&N and the Apple store. I don't really know what they do to authorize books or how long it takes, and I'm trying my best not to be in any way critical of the EPUB Ministry of Acceptable Books (guess I just failed). I am assured that the process has begun and must be content with that information.
Bottom line is this. If you want DiCarlo now, it is available in all formats through the limited channels shown on the website. If you want to buy it through your favorite seller, you may need to wait just a bit longer (should be there long before Christmas!). That's the book-biz.
