UPDATE DECEMBER 26, 2015: The latest printing of The Comic Book Story of Beer evidently arrived late from overseas and is now being trucked to Amazon warehouses and other points of sale. Amazon currently lists that orders will be filled beginning December 31.

We apologize for the delay! But we invite you to give all those gift cards you got for the holidays a serious nonfiction graphic novel workout!

ORIGINAL POST: It has certainly not escaped our attention that The Comic Book Story of Beer has, of late, become hard to find.

For starters, massively multibuyer online retailer Amazon.com has reported being temporarily out of stock of the title for about a week as of this posting. And what’s more, the book has been only spottily available at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide (and at Chapters in Canada).

If Santa only knew what vengeful sentiments we were harboring to the supply system kinks responsible for this shortage, we would be moved to the naughty list for sure.

We are all sugar plums and figgy puddings when it comes to gratitude over the response to the book. And that’s thanks completely to you. But it is still a problem that the book isn’t immediately available for those who want it, or want to gift it to the beer lovers they love.

Take heart. Despite Amazon’s out-of-stock status, our publisher—Penguin/Random House imprint Ten Speed Press—assures us that an order of 3-4,000 copies is about to be fulfilled to them. So let us invite you to order the book anyway. We have been told that fulfillment is just days away and that “there will be beer for Christmas.”

As for Barnes & Noble, unfortunately that company is struggling with a tumbling stock price, and its corporate buyers seem to see nonfiction graphic novels as a dicey proposition.

Please continue to ask for the book at brick and mortar stores like B&N. American booksellers of every size and shape need all the consumer support they can get right now.  Happy holidays!