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From: "Terrence Lockyer" <lockyert@mweb.co.za>
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Subject: Putnam Penguin's drop policy
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:46:04 +0200
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Steven J. Willett wrote

: Does anyone have knowledge of what constitutes
: the kind of insufficient sales that would cause Penguin
: to drop for example Shackleton-Bailey's three-volume
: translation of the letters of Cicero (later picked up by
: The Scholar's Press and then let die), Peter Green's
: translation of the Tristia and Robin Waterfield's translation
: of Xenophon's "Hiero the Tyrant" along with other shorter
: treatises (introduction and notes by Paul Cartledge)?

The Cicero, at least, is hardly a recent "drop".  S-B's Preface (dated
"August, 1982") to D. R. Shackleton Bailey (tr. and intr.), *Cicero:
Selected Letters* (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1986) says that "This
volume reproduces, with some appropriate modifications, parts of the
complete translation of Cicero's correspondence published in the same series
in 1978 and now out of print."  Have the Green (I presume this is *Ovid:
The Poems of Exile* [1994]) and the Xenophon (even more recent:  its
publication coincided roughly with that of Costa's 1997 Seneca) indeed gone
out of print?  Does this apply only to the US, or to Penguin's other
territories too?


Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa

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