As of right now, I’ve sold fewer copies of Searching for Malumba today than there were pre-orders for it.  Now, don’t get me wrong– I was quite pleased with the number of pre-orders, and in fact I have reason to believe that I sold a copy or two to people who did not actually pre-order the book.

Which leaves several people who appear to have not gotten their pre-order.

I mean, I pre-ordered the damn thing myself, right?  I know how this works.  The date rolls by, they send you an email that the thing’s on your Kindle, and boom– there it is.  So how is it possible that I have people who haven’t received their pre-orders yet?  Do I just have a handful of people whose credit cards aren’t clearing or something like that?

(Also, once again, the book isn’t getting credit for the number of sales today, meaning that doing pre-orders actually hurts your ranking on launch day– meaning that I won’t be doing this again.)

Any theories, other than that I know several grown adults who literally don’t have $4.95 right now?  Because that seems somewhat unlikely.