Then I went to Waldenbooks and got the same answer. The lady at Waldenbooks was very nice and told me she had called all over Springfield this morning, and 'everybody was out.'
On the way home I stopped at Sam's Wholesale and they did not have it. The lady there told me she did not even know if they would get it at all. She said they have no control over what comes in.
I have a small Heritage Bookstore here in my little hometown of 3000 people. The sales clerk told me the book was not out yet. I told her she was misinformed, that it has been out for over a week. She seemed surprised. I did not get the feeling that she was deliberately telling me a lie, I think she truly was misinformed.
My favorite little conservative coffee-shop also has not received its shipment yet. The owner had been told by his book dealer that the book was in its third or fourth printing. So far they had printed 175,000 copies. That does NOT sound like a lot of books. Do they only print 50,000 books at a time?
"My favorite little conservative coffee-shop also has not received its shipment yet..."