The stupidity is large in this thread...
BradyGames made the original official guides for these games. These are supposedly rewritten by PRIMA. And there's no word if they're official or not from what I could tell. Square-Enix would have nothing to do with this to boot besides official...
I have never had that issue with Goo Gone. All I add is one or two drops for small price stickers and then 2-6 drops for larger. I first try to peel off the sticker and if it fails, that's great because then goo gone can penetrate far better and thus only needing a couple drops per sticker.
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That sucks that they added that again. For $5 shipping they could at least also make it shoprunner available.
Ah well, keep an eye on it. They made it free shipping once they may do it again before it ships.
Here's the art book:
http://metalgearsolid.nl/?p=8650
It's about in the middle of the "Worst case" scenario and "what it should be" scenario.
If the USA version was going to be better you could bet that they would have showed it already.
I've never really heard of art books being bundled long term. They always seem to get cut out. So, while you may be able to get it cheaper later I can almost bet it will be limited until the initial stock is gone. After that I imagine it just being the games.