What is with the release date please?

[ElAurens]

What does "fairness" have to do with this?

Or the rampant nationalism so many of you are spouting?

This is a business transaction taking place in the twenty first century, we are not waiting at the docks in New York for a load of sewing needles coming across the Atlantic via clipper ship.

There is no reason why the downloand version should not be available to the entire world market on day of release.

And no reason for a month's difference in the hard copy version either.

For a bunch of folks that pretend at being so technologically savvy, you sure cling to some pretty old ideas about marketing in the modern world.