Stupid Kindle config question

I managed to break my Kindle 3G-with-keyboard (put a light rucksack on its back when it was face-down on a train seat, found the screen broken when I picked it up); Amazon sent me a replacement basic Kindle wifi for £50, which isn't unreasonable.

But on the Kindle 3G, when a book that I'd pre-ordered came out, it downloaded as soon as I connected to wifi and appeared in the home page of books currently on the device, generally right at the top of the list. On this one, when a pre-ordered book comes out it appears in 'archived items' in the appropriate position for its title, so I don't know anything's happened for ages.

I imagine there are lots of Kindle owners reading this: is this a configurable behaviour that I can configure back to the previous, desireable one?