Monday morning poll written in bed

[Poll #1460336]

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-21-2009

• Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious
  The book which he used to describe his breakdown is finally published.
  (tags: psychiatry psychology books jung)
• Amazon flexes its muscles against third party data users
  LibraryThing talks about the Amazon policy change, and how they're responding.
  (tags: amazon books publishing)
• The lawyer who could squelch the Disney/Marvel deal | SCI FI Wire
  The estate of Jack Kirbyâ”co-creator of Captain America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, The Avengers, Iron Man, Hulk, The Silver Surfer and Thorâ”has sent notices terminating copyright to publishers Marvel and Disney, as well as film studios that have made movies and TV shows based on characters he created or co-created, including Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures
  (tags: comics Marvel disney law)
• Clonehenges: 20 Creative Recreations of Stonehenge
  (tags: sculpture Architecture stonehenge)
• Alan Moore Reflects on Marvelman - Part 2
  (tags: comics alan_moore Marvelman)
• Alan Moore Reflects on Marvelman - Part 1
  (tags: comics alanmoore Marvelman)
• The World Without Us
  A timeline of life without humanity
  (tags: environment science earth TheFuture world human)
• An Inside Look At The Universe Of Warcraft
  75,000 CPU cores, 1.5million art assets, 7650 quests and 2 million words. It's big!
  (tags: games WorldOfWarcraft management scalability technology software mmo gaming)
• Jedi Thrown Out of Grocery Store
  The store's response is _fantastic_
  (tags: starwars Jedi business funny)
• The vulture funds that feed on the world's poor
  Buying up third world debt and then taking the countries to court to claim aid payments.
  (tags: poverty debt regulation UK usa)

Strange things afoot in online purchasing

Traditionally speaking my buying of trade paperbacks has followed a simple rule:
Forbidden Planet = Bloody Expensive, Amazon = Good Value
However, this doesn't seem to apply for Forbidden Planet's online catalogue, where the prices seem to frequently undercut Amazon and they get things sooner - sometimes months sooner.

Take, for example the new Absolute Death hardcover.  Amazon have it for £52.50 - FP Online have it for £50.25 (plus £1 shipping).  So £1 cheaper at FP - big deal.  Except that Amazon have it showing as in stock from the 18th of December, and Forbidden Planet delivered it to my door an hour and a half ago (huzzah for Julie being in slaving over her stats).

I assume that Direct Market comics just run ahead of book stores - which you wouldn't think Amazon would be happy about.  I wonder how long that will last.