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Boy, there was a lot of pent up demand after running short on the last printing. This week has seen some 4,700 copies of Agile Web Development with Rails ship to directly to customers, to Amazon, and to lots of local book stores. That should hopefully deal with the massive shortage that has been around for a good long while. They didn't even have any copies of the book at JAOO — despite having lots of willing buyers. What a shame.

Naturally, not every week is like this. But it's a pretty wild number to think about. 4,700 copies in one week. Glad I didn't have to lick the stamps on all of those.