I would not recommend ordering through BattleCorp... I would more strongly recommend finding a local game store and asking them to order it for you once the street date is known. Which will probably be in 3 months...
I ended up taking your advice, and getting the pdf through drivethru and will see about the physical copy when it comes available.
And since I ended up being home sick today I had time to read some of that pdf, before sleeping most of the day away. I liked the opening fiction piece reasonably well, but I particularly thought all the side boxes were used really well this time to help explain details of the drone life. I've ragged on SR5 layout and formatting more than once, so wanted to acknowledge a case where I thought it was really well done.
After that I managed to get through the part about the corporate court, then jumped to find out what was happening with Neonet, and managed to skim through S-K before running out of steam. I found the writing for both the corporate court and Nenet sections to be engaging and easy to read. No comment on S-K because I was only semi-conscious while skimming it.
Lots of bits of information, background, and even plot hooks. I have little doubt that this will leave me with a much better understanding of the Big 10, and a deeper and more nuanced world in the game I'm running. So no regrets at all on buying the book.
What I was a bit disappointed about was that, so far as I saw, this didn't move the plot forward very much. This is "After Boston, here is everybody scrambling to survive or to take maximum advantage of the situation." Rather than the "And as a result of Lockdown (and the tracking of player choices) here is the fallout and how the world changes. Given the focus that Lockdown gave on tracking player choices and how that would impact the world, a bit sad to see that the impact was not caught in this book -- I would have liked it to set the ground going forward. Well, hopefully another book or adventure will come along to move the plot along, but in my own game I'm going to have to make my own decisions soon and accept that cannon may eventually disagree.