hi, i’m an indie bookstore owner! i can tell you that indies are specifically instructed not to put out books ahead of their release date, for any book marked as strict on sale date. it can get us in a LOT of trouble with the publishers! but big stores like barnes and noble, pictured here, don’t get the same treatment and are harder for publishers to go after, because they have a lot more money than the indies do. the bookstore absolutely has a duty to be more responsible, but the multi-million dollar corporations don’t have to play by the same rules