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From some of the arrogant, big-headed clever-clever and down-right naive comments on this thread, I'm surprised that authors and publishers even bother to take on such huge costly projects, to be shot down by those who display little knowledge about the current publishing climate.

And best of all, people who openly admit they've not even seen the He111 book, yet are spouting off criticisms of its content!

The market since Classic first published their Me262 book in 1998, has taken a nose dive. Closure of chain and independent bookshops, the advent of information sharing online, Kindle and e-readers have massively made publishing and books on specialist niche subjects - which is what our interest is - highly unprofitable and in many cases unsustainable.

I'd love a set of books on my favourite subjects that are as thick as a set of telephone directories, but like telephone directories, they're rapidly a thing of the past and unsustainable.

Whilst I agree that many books are at eye-watering prices these days, the unchecked growth of web-based free content means books on niche subjects are increasingly unattractive to publishers and will only be so in the face of the internet/e-books ever rolling juggernaut.

Keep whinging if you must, but at least get your facts straight before you fire off flak at the hand that feeds our interest.