They've also announced they intend to sue the place that reputedly shipped the book early.
If my observations are correct, they won't get anywhere by suing the people that shipped the book early.
If you look at the picture of the book, there are two very telling details. First, there's a plastic cover over the book jacket. Second, on the bottom left corner of the book there is a piece of striated tape holding the plastic-covered book jacket onto the book. There's only one place I know of that would have a book shipped to them with a plastic cover and striated tape on it: a library.
So if I'm right, the place that shipped the book early was either Baker & Taylor, Ingram, or Book Wholesalers, Inc. (BWI). Thing is, Ingram, B&T, and BWI were supposed to ship early. If they didn't there'd be no way libraries could process their books and have them ready for their patrons by midnight on Saturday. Scholastic wouldn't get anywhere suing these particular distributors because they did exactly what they were supposed to do. Who they could sue would be the library that let their copies out of security long enough for someone to photograph the whole thing. Libraries had to sign an agreement with their distributor(s) that said the books would be locked up, and that only the director and one other person would even touch the books, and that no one would read them while cataloging. I don't know about Ingram and BWI, but the libraries I work with who use B&T had to have that agreement in sometime around March 10. The library that let the book out could be sued by Scholastic AND B&T/Ingram/BWI.
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If my observations are correct, they won't get anywhere by suing the people that shipped the book early.
If you look at the picture of the book, there are two very telling details. First, there's a plastic cover over the book jacket. Second, on the bottom left corner of the book there is a piece of striated tape holding the plastic-covered book jacket onto the book. There's only one place I know of that would have a book shipped to them with a plastic cover and striated tape on it: a library.
So if I'm right, the place that shipped the book early was either Baker & Taylor, Ingram, or Book Wholesalers, Inc. (BWI). Thing is, Ingram, B&T, and BWI were supposed to ship early. If they didn't there'd be no way libraries could process their books and have them ready for their patrons by midnight on Saturday. Scholastic wouldn't get anywhere suing these particular distributors because they did exactly what they were supposed to do. Who they could sue would be the library that let their copies out of security long enough for someone to photograph the whole thing. Libraries had to sign an agreement with their distributor(s) that said the books would be locked up, and that only the director and one other person would even touch the books, and that no one would read them while cataloging. I don't know about Ingram and BWI, but the libraries I work with who use B&T had to have that agreement in sometime around March 10. The library that let the book out could be sued by Scholastic AND B&T/Ingram/BWI.
Or I could be totally wrong.