Paul Oldham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💛 🇺🇦 on Nostr: On the back of a post by the excellent canongatebooks I pre-ordered "The Blue Place" ...

On the back of a post by the excellent canongatebooks (npub1a2w…4gpa) I pre-ordered "The Blue Place" by Nicola Griffith and did it via Bookshop.org to stop putting money Amazon's way.

It was published on 3rd July. Amazon will ship me a copy for delivery tomorrow for £9.19

Bookshop.org, who charged me £12.82 for it, still have it marked "OUT OF STOCK. USUALLY DESPATCHES WITHIN 3 WEEKS."

Folks, if you're going to try to compete with Amazon and you can't on price you at least have to do on service.

I despair.