Is it possibly a distributor issue? Does B&N have different deals >> with different distributors from Borders? > >Yes, they do. One of Borders features used to be their excellent deals >with distributors, usually ensuring that they got theirs faster and more >reliably than anyone else. Whoever was managing that is long gone from >that position, and their replacements have not been able to keep up >the same quality. > As far as I know, B&N and Border's both use Ingram as a distributor, at least in this area of Virginia. However, I am also fairly sure thaty they get shipments on different days and possibly use different trucking companies, which may explain some of the discrepancies in deliveries of LoCB. Emily (Waldenbook's Slave)