That’s what Sue Rostoni has said on StarWars.com:
There was a printing error — the printer used an ink that backfired and made some of the pages stick together, so the book was recalled after it was released. It will be reprinted using a more stable ink and will be released in October 2011. Many of the books found their way to market, so if you have one and the pages stick to the point that you’re not comfortable with it, you can return it and get the new one when it comes out.
I guess it’s kind of hard to get a new printing slot this close to the holidays?
The library district that I work for got a copy of this book. It’s a very detailed book, I enjoyed reading it and looking at all of the nostalgic items that were included. I will admit, the pages do stick together, but it isn’t anything that careful “peeling” can’t fix. They don’t stick too horribly; at least, not anything that would delay it for two more years.
Methinks they just want to add in more Clone Wars/present pop culture pages.
Dayum… is the sticky version going to be a super-rare collectible now?
“Dood! What the F***? The pages of yer Star Wras book are stuck together?!”
“Ya, it came that way. The printer used the wrong ink.”
*snicker* “Sure it did, Biggs Dickrubber.”
A whole year?! Curse the printing system!!
Yeah. The sticky book will probably skyrocket in price, now.
Reminds me of the hardcover of The Force Unleashed I got. The cover was upside down in relation to the text itself, and several of the pages had never been cut during printing. I had to tear them apart to read the whole story :p