RE: [HCDX] WRTH 2004

["Andy Sennitt" <andys@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> For a consideration to WRTH publisher in the future.
> Now we're aldready in mid November 2003 yet. Usually yearly WRTH is
> published at the end of January the next year. As we all know
> that the B-03
> schedule was started at the end of October, so we're late getting
> the latest
> winter schedule for the period end of Oct 03 - Jan 04 if '04 edition was
> published in Jan 04.
> My question is: can WRTH be published early each year ?

I am a former editor of WRTH. I don't have anything to to with WRTH these
days, but we used to get the same question every year. The answer is that
you can only compress the editorial/production process so far. I believe I
worked hard, averaging 70-80 hours a week from August-December. I once
worked for 53 consecutive days, including weekends, without a break. In the
end my health suffered. But still we couldn't produce the thing in the short
time frame that readers want. Things are worse now because the winter
schedule starts at the end of October (used to be the end of September).
Broadcasters all want to hold back their information until the last possible
moment, and two people cannot physically handle that amount of data in a few
days. Then when that's all done, you have to pray that the printing and
production go smoothly. When WRTH was produced in the States, four different
production plants in four different parts of the US were involved. Then the
finished books had to be shipped to the warehouse for distribution.
Sometimes this coincided with major snowfalls. I remember one year when the
books were in the warehouse but could not be sent out because the trucks
couldn't get through 10 foot snowdrifts!

That said, the B-03 schedule lasts till the end of March 2004, not january,
so you are exaggerating the problem. I'm quite sure the current publisher is
doing his utmost to get the book out as fast as possible: time is money in
publishing, as in everything else.

Andy Sennitt.


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