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Blue Guide Central Italy
June 23, 2008 · 4 Comments
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reader // Jun 30th 2008 at 4:32pm
The United States and British web sites give different publication dates for this volume (http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Central-Italy-Florence-Guides/dp/1905131224/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199365166&sr=1-1 [June 2, 2008] and http://www.amazon.co.uk/Central-Italy-Rome-Florence-Guides/dp/1905131224/ref=pd_rhf_p_2 [April 2008-). Will there be any differences between the two editions other than spelling?
Publisher, Blue Guides // Jun 30th 2008 at 4:34pm
The two editions are identical (even the spelling), transportation from our European printers means that the books tend to arrive in the US a month later than the UK.
Reader // Jun 30th 2008 at 4:35pm
Could you tell me whether you will be publishing a new edition of Blue Guide Umbria in the near future, or whether Umbria will now be covered in the new Central Italy edition? If so, a pity as I have Blue Guides for Florence and Tuscany and I think the new Central Italy edition will be too weighty to accompany sightseeing!
Blue Guides, Publisher // Jun 30th 2008 at 4:36pm
Umbria will indeed be in the new Blue Guide Central Italy, which, inevitably will be weighty at around 750 pages - as you know there is such a lot to cover. We did a new edition of Florence in 2004, a new Tuscany is being written now for publication Spring 2009, we have a Marche (2006) (the region is also in the new Central Italy) and will certainly review Umbria after Tuscany is out.
It is a constant dilemma that we face: more focused books to smaller regions enable us to provide information in the depth we would like but risk only being able to sell in uneconomic quantities. It is a challenge to make a book covering a larger amount of material maintain the level of information and erudition of a real Blue Guide.
We hope we have succeeded in the new Central Italy, which also incudes new material on Northern Lazio which hasn’t been in a Blue Guide since the 1950s.
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