[pct-l] Fwd: Guidebook update from Wilderness Press

[Len Glassner]

FYI

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Roslyn Bullas <rbullas at wildernesspress.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Guidebook update from Wilderness Press
To: Len Glassner <len5742 at gmail.com>


Hi Len-
As you might have heard, Wilderness Press was acquired last year. Our parent
company, Keen Communications (which also owns Menasha Ridge Press), is
trying to work out the process of digitizing the maps in conjunction with
Ben Schifrin. It's still at the early stages and until that's worked out, we
can't announce the timing of the new edition. I'm certainly hoping it's in
2011, but we won't know for sure for a while. It's not just a matter of
inserting topos for the trail section, but of reusing the existing trail
data that had significant changes to both basemap information (contour
lines) and labels in such a way that we can easily update it. All very
time-consuming and expensive work, in challenging times for publishers.

Roslyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Glassner [mailto:len5742 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:11 PM
To: rbullas at wildernesspress.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Guidebook update from Wilderness Press


Hi,

Is Wilderness Press still planning on coming out with updated guidebooks?
Any timeline?

Thanks,

Len Glassner

On Mon, Jan 7, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Roslyn Bullas <rbullas at wildernesspress.com>
wrote:
>
> Ben Schifrin is still working on PCT: Oregon/Washington, so a new
> edition won't be out this season. After that, he'll update the
> Southern California edition. As I think I've mentioned, it's a pretty
> major task, especially since all the maps need to be digitized this
> time around.
>
> Roslyn Bullas
> Publishing Manager, Wilderness Press
>
>
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