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

[AsABat]

We've been hearing that since the last edition came out. I guess it's enough
to be thankful that the guidebooks aren't out of print, as they were for a
year or more before the latest edition was published. Of course, that's good
for the new competitors ;-)



On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Len Glassner <len5742 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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