According to Amazon.com, my book Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School―But Didn’t is either “out of print” or “currently unavailable.” And indeed, this is what I currently see when I go to the book’s Amazon page:
Don’t believe your lying eyes: My book is not out of print, just out of stock; Amazon just sold all the copies it had in its warehouses, and now you can only get it from third-party booksellers if you choose to buy it from Amazon.com.
That my book has exceeded expectations in terms of sales and is currently out of stock is a nice problem for me to have, but what can you do if you would like to purchase your own copy? Here are two options:
- You can backorder a copy from Bookshop. I have been using Amazon for so long that this needed to be explained to me, and maybe it needs to be explained to you, too. The way my editor explained it is as follows: “A backorder means that you’ll be placing an order that will be filled as soon as stock arrives … with Bookshop, a customer can place the order now and it will be fulfilled once books are back in stock.” The link to get the book through Bookshop is here.
- If you are in the US, you can backorder a copy from Penguin Random House and get a $5 discount. The MIT Press marketing folks have created a discount code that can get you a $5 discount on the price of the book (so instead of paying $25, you pay $20) for people with US mailing addresses. The link to order from Penguin Random House is here; use “DoingEcon” (no quotation marks) as discount code (there is a limit of one discount per order). In this case, too, your copy will ship once inventories are replenished.