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It says on the main page that Magic Street comes out on June 28.
quote:- Coming June 28th - Magic Street
If this is so how did I get it from my library 3 days ago. I don't understand. Could someone please explain this phenomenon.
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Your library has a time portal. It's not really something I'd advertise, unless you WANT your library to suddenly become ridiculously overcrowded.
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Oh yeah?! Well...um, I got Magic Street last week! So HA!
Ok now that I'm back to reality, I don't know why your library had the book so early. Maybe libraries have special privileges and get books before the general public can purchase them. Maybe it was released somewhere else first and that person brought it to your library? Maybe it's fake? I dunno.
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Libraries and bookstores get the books before the realease date. In America bookstores/movie shops put out new realases on Tuesdays. To get it there for that Tuesday, the books need to be received before then Correct me if I'm wrong, but in England this day is Saturday (why HP ALWAYS comes out on a Saturday). Every so often the bookstores put it out before the date (which happened with SOTG). Or in the case of the libary, the books come in, and tech services finishes working with them before the release date, and it goes to the first people requesting it. If you are first on the list for a newly published book, often times you will be called before the date. It's not too hard to be first if you make stalking the online request catalog for your favorite authors a must-do everytime you visit the library. Libraries don't care about release dates at all, but for the most part, realease dates of books aren't that rigid. If you make puppy dog faces at the person at the bookstore inventory computer, you can get him/her to get it for your from storage. However, if the book becomes available in the middle of the week before the official launch, it kills the first day rush that can put books on the bestseller lists. While OSC likes being on the besteller list, he doesn't mind too much when people purchase the books early from a bookseller because he gets the royalties to feed his family no matter what. People only rigidly respect release dates with something like the Harry Potter books. Booksellers/libraries will still get the books sometime in the week before the release. They just can't be given to customers/patrons until then. Don't think the people who work in any of those places aren't human and have no curiousity about the book. However, Scholastic/Bloomsbury will simply sue the pants off anyone who breaks the injunction *if they find out*. It's about spoilers and small children. Oh yeah, and breaking sales records.
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