"Against All Things Ending" ARC

Post by **dANdeLION** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:03 am

Stonemaybe wrote:um, what's ARC?

Advance Reading Copy, a limited run of a book made before the book is officially printed. They're given out to booksellers, journalists and even celebrities by the publisher as a marketing tool.

Post by **stonemaybe** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:04 am

oh!

do book shop staff really do that sort of thing?

(or do they just sell them on ebay???!)

Post by **dANdeLION** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:11 am

The less scrupulous ARC receivers do indeed sell their copies on ebay, presumably after they've proofed them. Of course, the absolute scum of the earth are the slime who buy them. Such impatience should be punishable by death; and not that weenie lethal injection crap, either. I'm talking 'tie them up with BP execs and force them to watch reruns of Full House until their heads explode' death here.

On the other hand, if it weren't for the leaking of an ARC copy of Lord Foul's Bane from Al Gore to danlo in 1969, Kevin's Watch as we know it may never have existed.

Post by **Creator** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:19 am

___ wrote:..Of course, the absolute scum of the earth are the slime who buy them. Such impatience should be punishable by death; and not that weenie lethal injection crap, either. I'm talking 'tie them up with BP execs and force them to watch reruns of Full House until their heads explode' death here..

Jealous!!

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:40 am

I'll admit I am jealous, but I'll settle back with my new-to-me copy of Gilden Fire with Fist and Faith's avatar on the cover and a note from him to me on the facecover, which just arrived today instead.

...thanks Fist!

Post by **aliantha** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:53 am

___ wrote:On the other hand, if it weren't for the leaking of an ARC copy of Lord Foul's Bane from Al Gore to danlo in 1969, Kevin's Watch as we know it may never have existed.

OMG, you don't mean...Al Gore invented KW too???

YouTube · Post by **Menolly** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:56 am

aliantha wrote:
___ wrote:On the other hand, if it weren't for the leaking of an ARC copy of Lord Foul's Bane from Al Gore to danlo in 1969, Kevin's Watch as we know it may never have existed.
OMG, you don't mean...Al Gore invented KW too???

I knew there was an explanation for that Watch start date of 1969 in stats...

Post by **Avatar** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:17 pm

(Damn, time flies...AATE already...)

--A

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:15 pm

Avatar wrote:

(Damn, time flies...AATE already...)

--A

Time flies my ass....it's been 3 long years (or, for Av, 12,482 posts.)

Post by **dANdeLION** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:20 am

Creator wrote:Jealous!!

Not as much as you'd think, actually. Waiting for SRD is hard, because his work's so good, but he set the publishing dates way back and I can trust him to keep the schedule. George R.R. Martin, OTOH, he drives me nuts. If you had the ARC of Dances with Dragons, I swear I'd be at your doorstep, waiting to borrow it when you were done.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:43 am

dlbpharmd wrote:Time flies my ass....it's been 3 long years (or, for Av, 12,482 posts.)

Just seems three years has passed really quickly is all...

--A

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:59 pm

Stonemaybe wrote:um, what's ARC?

The ARC of the Covenant, of course.

:rimshot:

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:19 pm

Boooooo