Jumping the gun, or over-organized? Amazon France is getting fan hopes up with a placeholder page for The Winds of Winter, complete with release date. Over on Reddit, they’re trying to tamp down on those hopes, but it may be to no avail. Between the ISBN registration last week, and now the discovery that one of the major Amazon shops has set up a page to take orders for The Winds of Winter, hopes may have already flown to high to bring down.
Not just a page, but a date: March 9th, 2017.
Now, as everyone over there is trying to point out in order to bring those hopes down low enough that we can get them under control, Amazon regularly makes pages for upcoming expected releases, even when there has not been an announcement. And they regularly use placeholder dates on those pages, which have little to no basis in reality.
Furthermore the other three big Amazon sites (Amazon UK, Amazon Germany and Amazon US) do not have anything of the sort on their sites at all. So France could be jumping the gun. They could be over organized. Maybe someone accidentally let that page go live when it wasn’t supposed to be, placeholder dates and all.
March 9th, 2017 is a very sensible placeholder date too, if the page was built this week running on an end of 2016 delivery date to the publishers. (Three months from delivery to press is about standard.) But that does not mean it has any basis in reality. But if it were my job to build a placeholder page, that’s about when I guess for to, and how I got it right, for bragging rights purposes. (Much like when Razor guesses at episodes titles prior to the upcoming Game of Thrones season.)
Once again, we must sit and remember this: Until George R.R. Martin Announces on his NotABlog that The Winds of Winter is complete and the publication date, *EVERYTHING YOU HEAR* is to be taken with very large boulders of salt. And the current NotABlog entry is talking about Wild Cards. So.
Via http://winteriscoming.net/2016/09/04/amazon-france-getting-fans-hopes-winds-winter-placeholder-page/
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