“Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R” published for X’mas

Our book Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R with George Casella, published by Springer Verlag, should appear before Christmas, if I am to believe the following email from the production manager:

Dear Dr. Robert,
I would like to inform you that the estimated publication date for this book is Dec 14 (…)

The production delays have thus incredibly shrunk from what they were even five years ago. This may be related to the new print-on-demand practice that avoids publishing a whole printing at once... So now you know what you should order for X’mas!