Amazon had the year set to 2025....
I'm pretty sure that was done recently as a jab at Pat. I've been checking that status for over a year and it always said April of 2009.
Pat posted on his blog (
here) a screenshot of the B&N site with a 2025 release date for
Wise Man's Fear. A B&N employee explained what was going on in a comment to that post: 2025 is their computer system's highest date (for now), and it is the default for books with unknown publication dates. I imagine Amazon's system works similarly (it might even be built on top of the same codebase).
Amazon and B&N are probably big enough that they could afford to take jabs at authors, but there's no reason for them to do so.