e-mail
from Penguin Books
Dear Mr Burgess
Thank you for your letter of 15
January about Penguin's decision to
discontinue publication of the
Wainwright guides. We too think that
they
are wonderful books, but in terms
of Penguin's current publishing they are
very specialist. We believe that
placing them with a smaller publishing
house which would be able to
invest in necessary updating would actually be
beneficial to the guides, and we
are confident that the whole series will be
placed with one of a number of
houses that have expressed strong interest.
Jenny Dereham, who was for many
years Wainwright's publisher here, is
looking after the transition
process and is confident that the guides will
be reappearing, with minimal
disruption to supply, from another smaller
publishing house very shortly.
Yours sincerely
Helen Fraser
Managing Editor