heyas; if you're going to siggraph and can't wait to get your copy from amazon, the book will be available for purchase at siggraph. focal press and morgan kauffmann have a booth together under elsevier, which is their parent company. look for them, because... well, if you go into siggraph chanting 'we want the book!' nobody is going to know what the heck you are talking about :) no, i will not be at siggraph, myself.