Mysticete
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Most of the cost of a new field guide comes from the writing of text, art (most of which comes from the HBW project?), editing, and layout. Once that is done I imagine it costs very little to publish further editions, as long as they are not complete overhaulsAim having a really hard time making any sense of the direction that Lynx Nature Books (as they are called now) is taking. They claim there is no economy in publishing field guides as publication costs and demands have made it unsustainable.
At the same time they are announcing second editions of field guides published just a few years ago? looking at some of their new releases I can't help but thinking that many of these titles must have very limited sales numbers so where is the economy and logic in that?
There is a forthcoming edition of Birds of Spain but it is only available in Spanish (just as their recently published mammal guide to Catalonia and Andorra) despite the fact that Spain is a very popular tourist destination. I think an overhaul of the HBW project is very unlikely given that we have BoW now.