Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4548390-20161221060524/@comment-16461120-20161228051853

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Oh, ok. Well as long as they pay tribute. I'm dumb, I always thought the first printing was like four or five days before the release date, that way the stores get their stock like the day before or something. So I thought there'd still be time to add something in last minute. Stores begin to place their orders ten weeks in advance and the publishers have what's called a FOC (final order cut-off) just over three weeks in advance of the ship date, which is the day before the release date. Then if there's an unexpected problem during printing, it typically delays shipment by at least two weeks to reprint correctly and coordinate potential recalls between the distributor and the stores.