Regarding the release dates, I can certainly see your point there. Their dates are usually pretty accurate but it’s next to impossible to control/judge when actual retailers will make the books available to consumers – be it physical stores or online ones. I did notice the Web-A-Thon seemed to have fallen through too, which is a shame because the idea was good, though you make a good point about them choosing a novel over a manga.

I guess the only thing that sometimes vaguely irritates me is that the release date list is really “this is when we hope to have the book out”, not hard dates. They also have not followed up with June’s Web-a-Thon, which was supposed to allow pre-orders of titles to speed up printing of certain titles. I personally think they kind of dropped the ball on this project as the first title was a novel, not a manga (first of a two part series nonethless), and they didn’t push the project when the cut off date approached.

I wasn’t aware that they had active sites on social networking websites (Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal) but since I don’t use them it’s no big loss.