Among the many things we're proud of about Baseball Prospectus 2014—the incredible group of writers, from both inside and outside of our organization; the tremendous writing that this incredible group turned in; the lineout for Matthew Duffy—is that it's out already. We know your drafts start early and we know that it takes a lot of time to read every word, so speed in delivery to you is crucial. Some years it arrives on your doorstep in late February, so to be a full month ahead of that is really something we're pleased with.
One funny thing about having the book on doorsteps on January 23rd, three weeks before the scheduled release date, is that it arrived before the Kindle version was even ready. Framed one way, this is probably annoying to some of you Kindlers. You don't want to wait! We understand. But we want to reassure everybody that the Kindle version is actually right on schedule; it should be out soon, and we are hearing promising status updates from the publisher. In fact, I can say with almost total confidence that you will have the Kindle version far earlier than it was originally scheduled. It is ahead of schedule. It's just not as ahead of schedule as the physical book turned out to be.
So, here's your task for the day: If you're a physical-book reader, a person who likes to line pretty things up on bookshelves, go buy the book. It's out. It's being read. It's having nice things said about it. It's $1 less today than it was yesterday, for some reason. Once you get it, and once you read it, go find one of the many talented writers whose name is in the book and compliment him or her on the great job he or she did.
If you're a Kindle reader—or iTunes, Nook, or other non-Kindle format for which we've traditionally released the book—then keep checking on Amazon or at your ebook vendor of choice. "Soon," we're told. Soon is relative, and soon is vague, but soon is good. It'll be soon.
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Surprised. Once you have the guts of an app, updating it for the next season should just be changing out an XML file, since you're writing the blurbs anyway.
I guess it's back to paper, and pretending that it's 2005.
See my comment below.
I travel for work and it's pretty ridiculous to cart the BP Annual everywhere (although it's nearly as ridiculous to make a trade without consulting my "assistant GM")
Baseball Prospectus 2014 Paperback – February 11, 2014
I ordered a copy and look forward to reading it.
I ended up ordering from amazon.com and will pay the import fee through them.
I just ordered my annual for about $17.50 through pre-order.
But why do you promote amazon so heavily? Do they pay you for all your mentions, links, and generic mentions of their E-Reader Product (the only proprietary, or company store E-Reader on the market)?
Does Bezos own BP now?
Still can't wait to dive into this year's book! I'll get it from a bookstore, though.
We love bookstores! By all means get Baseball Prospectus 2014 from one, and thanks for buying and reading it.
I haven't heard any such issues for any other players, though by all means let us know if there are.
Really good comment.
Thanks very much!