Weren’t they going to try and distribute 5000 copies around California in one day or some ridiculous bullshit like that?

Who reads the introductions to new editions of classical texts anyway?

The fact of the matter is that very few people are going to read OoS on their own if it’s not assigned in a class. They are going to read Stephen Jay Gould or a more modern biologist explaining Darwin. If they do read it for a class, it won’t be this version assigned and if they get to pick their own text they won’t be assigned to read the introduction.