Hockey Stick Illusion - US availability

I note that the Hockey Stick Illusion is now available on Amazon.com. The price is highish, but no longer silly.

The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Independent Minds)

Comments

[C3 Editor]

Just bought mine from Amazon. It's actually being offered by one of the independent booksellers that has an Amazon retail "store front." For Amazon Prime members this means there is no free shipping - an additional shipping charge of $4.00 tacked on.

Looking forward to a good read.

[MikeN]

As I previously noted, I got it from one of those sellers(TBD) for just $16 including shipping, but now they have raised the prices. You should have posted sooner, and maybe everyone would have gotten a better deal.

[Bishop Hill]

MikeN

I saw your original post, and went to take a look, but they quoted me $44!

[Jean S]

I already read mine -- an excellent book!

A small additional info BH may not be aware of: there exist a submission version of MBH99, still available through the The Wayback Machine
here. In that the authors are IMO much more explicit about the purpose of the paper than in the final version. Original abstract:

Several recent studies have sought to estimate seasonal or annual Northern Hemisphere (NH) mean temperatures during past centuries based on available networks of proxy and historical data. Because of interest in the possibility that temperatures were globally warmer in Medieval times, preceeding any plausible anthropogenic climate infuences, we investigate here the possibility of millennial-scale reconstructions of hemispheric temperature based on proxy data. We focus on the statistical properties of the underlying data and the reconstructions themselves, and assess the reliability of the reconstructions and uncertainties therein, back in time. Taken at face value, the 20th century appears to be the warmest century this millennium, the 1990s the warmest decade, and several recent individual years the warmest on record. However, the expanded uncertainties in early centuries preclude, as yet, any denitive conclusions prior to about AD 1400.

Later in the text:

Such long-term temperature reconstructions are of particular interest in view the long-standing view that temperatures were warmer 1000 years ago - a period described by Lamb (1965) as the MedievalWarm Epoch. Although Lamb never suggested this was a globally-synchronous warm episode (indeed most of his evidence was only from western Europe) others have seized on his concept to suggest that this period provides evidence of that modern-day warmth may be natural, and un-related to greenhouse gase concentration increases.

[Don Pablo de la Sierra]

Bishop,

Still no movement on getting the book printed over here in the US? Although I have not seen your contract with your UK publisher, I will bet that they have "English" rights and the right to publish it in the US under their name. Printing here can be easily done.

[Bishop Hill]

They can publish in the US, but have no presence over there, so they are not hugely interested. I have an agent that side of the pond working on it for me.

[Don Pablo de la Sierra]

All they need is to get the ISBN that your book already has in to Ingram as well as Baker & Taylor. That requires getting into "Books In Print" at Bowker LINK. Perhaps ten minutes of effort. Then stocking both Ingram and Baker and Taylor with books. If they want to take a short cut and print the books quickly, they can do it all through Lightning Source. They are owned by Ingram. I do it all the time for my books and those of a couple other publishers I help. And they are all available at every bookstore in both the US and UK -- maybe not on the shelf, but can be ordered post haste (one to two week delivery).

I would have thought that Stacey International knows how to do that.

I suspect that someone at Stacey has "better things to do". You are, unfortunately, struck with their contract. Oddly, I would have recommended them to you if you asked six months ago, as they are big in your field of interest. I am frankly (no pun) surprised that they aren't doing it. Your book should sell well over here.

[Bishop Hill]

JeanS

That's interesting. Well worth tucking away in case I do a revised edition.

[George]

Thanks for the note -- my copy is on order. Delivery may be a little slow. I live 50 miles NW of Washington DC and I just finished shoveling 20 inches of global warming off my dirveway.

[Bernie Hutchins]

Not wishing to wait longer for US suppliers to offer it, I ordered the Bishop's book on Jan 26, using Amazon.co.uk (as reached by the "Order Now" on this page), and it arrived here in Ithaca, New York on Feb. 1 by Royal Mail (actually, USPS completed the delivery!!!). Their acknowledgment had estimated delivery Feb 5, so they beat that by four days. It cost me $25.80 including shipping. Ordering was the same, or only a little more complicated than ordering from the US. Just a few clicks. I couldn't believe how easy it was to order, or how fast delivery was.

And to my mind, the price was great. It's almost 500 pages of a high-quality "trade" paperback. And of course, it's the written material that we really pay for. As for that, it was 3AM by the time I stopped reading the first session.

Bishop - I don't think folks imagine how good your book really is. Thank you.

[Heading Out]

Yes, and I reviewed it on my site yesterday at

http://bittooth.blogspot.com/2010/02/reading-climategate-books.html

[John Silver]

How about European availability?

I just ordered the book from adlibris.com here in Sweden for 145 SEK, thats £ 12.54 including 8 % VAT and free shipping!

Now, that's a good deal!

[MkeN]

Yea, I was wondering how they were offering the book so cheap. Looks like I got a good deal.
I thought maybe they had bought a batch direct from the publisher in UK.

[N]

You can still save a few bucks ordering directly from amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.com and you don't need a separate login.

[C3 Editor]

As I mentioned in the top comment, I ordered book via the U.S. Amazon.com last Sunday. It arrived on the following Friday - not bad. I was surprised it had a Royal Mail postage stamp on the envelope, though. I thought it would be coming from a U.S. based book outlet. The $4.00 shipping fee is very reasonable considering it's crossing the "pond."