On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Steve Rapaport wrote: > In the six months between now and then, can someone tell me what additional > stuff we're waiting for that takes six months? It can't just be printing > the books. Patrick Nielsen Hayden quoted at http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/02/a_paperness_on_.html: Look into the increasingly monopolistic book printing and binding business sometimes. American publishing consists of thousands of publishers contending for the business of fewer and fewer printers and binders. It doesn't give the publishers a lot of leverage, even for bestselling titles like the Potter books.