Ian Rankin paid £30 for the newspaper edition of The King of Limbs; by June it hadn't come.

The novelist paid £30 in February 2011, and the newspaper editions began reaching buyers in early May. The Quietus found his had been signed for at 3.05pm on 9 May, by someone called Macrury. “When I sought Macrury, Macrury wasn't there,” Rankin wrote that June, still without it.