Publishing Delays

I have now been officially informed that all three of my book chapters as well as the encyclopedia article that were previously scheduled to be published in 2006 will not come out until 2007. I finished writing the most recent of these pieces over a year ago. The oldest of the pieces will be over four years old by the time it is print. Academic publishing is truly on the opposite end of the spectrum from blogging when it comes to the time lag between submitting a finished piece of writing and seeing it published.