UPDATE Barnes and Noble Leaked Pages Pulled

After nearly twenty-four hours and widespread coverage in the blog-o-sphere, hobby news sites, forums, mainstream news sites, and twitter; Barnes and Noble has pulled the pre-order pages for the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set and Player's Handbook off their websites (see Release Date for Next Leaked? for more). 

According to Forbes "Wizards of the Coast (a subsidiary of toy giant Hasbro) has declined to comment on the leak or confirm those release dates, and they haven’t appeared on other sites, like Amazon.com. Lacking that confirmation, the nebulous process of assigning dates to new products could mean this “leak” doesn’t accurately reflect Wizards’ plans."

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the leak on Barnes and Noble was just symptomatic of the many problems with that company at this time; however, it also wouldn't surprise me if Wizards took advantage of the largely negative feedback and changed their plans. 

More on this story as it continues to develop.

[Edit] The Starter Set pre-order page is still up at this time. Sorry for the confusion on this point. 

[Edit - 3/5/2014] Both pages are now down.