Barnes and Noble shows the release date for the reissue as March 2006. Of course there is no mention that it is a reissue.

Amazon has the reissue cover up but no note that a reissue is coming out. And STILL only shows the used copies – starting at $19.99 for an ACCEPTABLE copy.

BAM shows it as a release date of March 2006 with the note:

Special Order: Usually ships within 3-5 weeks. We cannot guarantee availability of special order titles because publishers may run out of stock. We will notify you in 3-4 weeks if we are unable to get this title for you.

Liz Carlyle’s site doesn’t even have the info up but she has been great about sending out updates with her yahoo group. (A must join for LC fans… not a ‘group’ just newletter and updates from the author) And it seems like what was to be a reissue, is still being reissued but as a special order.

WHY?!? As someone who read a random Carlyle book, when I first started reading romance, and didn’t like it much. I passed on reading more until a 3.99 reissue of A Woman of Virtue caught my eye. In fact I even passed up buying A Woman Scorned in a used book store once. Yep, the things you kick yourself for later.

Beauty Like the Night and A Woman of Virtue have been reissued for $3.99. And from that I thought all her out of print books were set for reissue, then A Woman Scorned was up in the air and then confirmed as a ‘special’ order.

I get it if they don’t want to release it at a discount. Fine. But for a book that is out of print and reselling at a stupid rate (which the publisher and author see nothing from) why not release it like a normal reissue? It looks like this is the last book of her still OOP. Not counting that you can go to amazon right now and download the ebook.

So what am I missing? Why wouldn’t the publisher want a wider reissue of a book selling for $23 – $31 used?

Oh and if you want this, I strongly suggest ordering it now (if you have B&N do it, you don’t have to pay shipping where as if you do it online you do… or you need to spend $25 :)) or making it an amazon alert. And join Liz Carlyle’s yahoo group. Her last update made a mention of it showing up in stores in June. So I am not sure if that means special order now and get now, or in June you can just buy it. Or not… really does make you wonder why publishers are looking around questioning why book sells are down. Book buying shouldn’t be so much trouble.