Cartographer’s Toolkit is currently sold through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The book has done decently on Amazon since its release 1.5 weeks ago* BUT it is having a perpetual stocking issue there. From time to time it has reached the top spot in the cartography best-sellers:
HOWEVER
Right now Amazon lists it as “usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks”, which any author will tell you should be death to a book’s sales prospects. Thankfully, the book is still selling okay on Amazon but I wanted to alert my blog readers to the fact that you might as well just buy the book from Barnes & Noble instead of Amazon, if you haven’t already. That way you will get it much faster. I won’t make any affiliate revenue from sending buyers to B&N but there’s no reason to ask people to wait 1-3 weeks, if that’s what it is taking Amazon to ship it.
B&N Cartographer’s Toolkit Listing
If the availability on Amazon changes I will be sure to post again.
*Careful readers will note that the publication date is officially mid-June, even though it was released in mid-July. This is a glitch having to do with when the files were submitted at the printers and when I finally allowed the book to be released for sale…which took a bit of extra time than usual because of the large amount of graphics in this book.
#1 by Tim on July 22, 2012 - 10:05 pm
Hi Gretchen,
I’m very excited about the book – do you have any plans for a PDF or ePub version? I move around a lot, so it’s hard for me to justify buying hardcopy reference books, but I’d love to have access to the material while I’m on the road.
#2 by Gretchen on July 23, 2012 - 8:57 am
Tim – You can get pdf versions of the first two chapters, formatted slightly differently, on my site under the heading “booklets” at the top. The third chapter–Patterns–is not available in an e-version. I don’t have plans to make an e-version of the entire book because of the graphics-intensive nature of it, making it extremely difficult (maybe impossible) to properly convert to an e-reader format.