Dear Gruppe,
Perhaps we can express our amazement or even discontent to Ian Allan Publishing (IAP) regarding their decision to
cease operating the Classic Publications imprint.
A simple (and polite) email to their email account by, hopefully a lot of, members from this board might perhaps persuade IAP to reconsider their decision? This was already suggested by Nick Beale in an earlier thread on TOCH and with this message I second his proposal.
Perhaps we should best address the emails to the sales director Mr Jonathan King.
In my opinion IAP loses more than it gains from this decision: trading in a specialized brand for a “wholesale” brand will probably cause a loss of focus, fewer specialized books and therefore a loss of clients.
According to the IAP website they have problems with their email account. They can be contacted at
info@midlandcounties.com and the subjectline is supposed to start with “Email from Ian Allan Website [temp]”, probably to redirect the messages to IAP.
I am interested to hear what you think of this proposal and I hope it generates a lot of emails to IAP.
(I have posted a simular email at LEMB)