To Own a Dragon recall/delay

February 7th, 2006 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

For the past week I have been visiting the Amazon page for Donald Miller’s To Own A Dragon and I have seen this message every time: “THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.” The book was released on February 5, and I simply did not understand why it was unavailable.

From donmillerfans.net:

Well, the good news is “To Own a Dragon” was printed and shipped to stores! About 45,000 books were printed, and 37,000 of those shipped to stores right away. However, there is bad news. The bad news is we quickly discovered a “rough draft” chapter had been printed in the book instead of the actual chapter. The chapter mistake was the last chapter of the book, where I reveal the butler did it (stink, I cant believe I said that.) The timing on going to press was incredibly fast after I wrapped up the book. While the book took more than a year to write, I didnt finish it until the week before it went to press (normal lead time is around 6 months) and because of this, the copy-edit system broke down a bit. The books were recalled and we are hoping that all 45,000 will be donated to a prison ministry of some sort. New books have already been printed and are being shipped. This bumped back the street date on the book by about a week. All that to say, if you already have a copy, you have a collectors item for sure. And if you have one on order, you should be receiving it shortly.

Hopefully this will do an end to the rumor that the books were recalled because of extreme profanity and heretical theological views. THIS IS NOT THE REASON THE BOOKS WERE RECALLED! The extrememe profanity and heretical views had nothing to do with it, nor does the center foldout picture of me in only boxer-shorts seductively licking a spoon covered in peanut butter. That is a perfectly reasonable picture, people.

Don

Man, I wish I had one of the misprints.