Egmont Books.

[Nick]

I've just, furiously, complained to Egmont.

Whilst trying to discover if the new editions of the FFO are being released today (I've not read the series and thought I'd assemble a complete collection of the same edition) I discovered that they have given away the plot of the first book in a 4 line review!

Thanks a lot.

Not happy.

Just had to get it off my chest.

[Lucky Star]

What, they gave away the ending? Thats a bit silly.

[Dick Kirrin]

I reckon they are not interested in selling books. At our time and age, with the economy on its all time high, why should they be? Aren't they making enough money as it is?

Cheers

Dick Kirrin

[Fiona1986]

They seem to have 'reviewed' several of the books like that, 'Dissapearing Cat' is summed up, complete with who the culprit is. What would then be the point in reading a who-dunit if we know who dun it???

[Dick Kirrin]

That's people taking their customers serious. Good to know. I apologize for my nasty mocking of them.

Cheers

Dick Kirrin

[Anita Bensoussane]

That's great news, Nick! I see that Egmont have altered the reviews now, so yes, they obviously are willing to respond to feedback.

Anita

[Tony Summerfield]

Yes, Egmont were very quick off the mark and you may have just noticed that someone from Egmont has just joined the forums! Going back to what Ming said in an earlier post, I think you will find that the blurb on the back of the books is different to what was on the website and I am pretty certain that the plot is not given away there.

[Moonraker]

Yes, Egmont were very quick off the mark and you may have just noticed that someone from Egmont has just joined the forums!

I have indeed - welcome Egmont UK Ltd, it is good to have someone from the professional world of Enid Blyton! Thank you for such quick work in changing the book descriptions. I am sure we are all indebted to the current publishers for promoting and selling Enid's books into today's book shops. It would be interesting to hear of a publisher's reasons and decision making into updating Blyton's work.

Maybe, in the interests of tack, diplomacy and politeness, the Gggrrrrrr should be deleted from the Topic heading.

[Egmont UK Ltd]

First of all, I should introduce myself: I'm Mike and I work in the marketing team at Egmont Press. Secondly, I'd just like to say thanks for highlighting this problem and also to apologise for the mistake we've made here.

Just for clarity, Marcella works for our distributor as part of the web team as her post says. Thanks for drawing our attention to this thread, Marcella.

As several posters in this thread have already said, it's not the cleverest move to publish the entire plot of a book in a summary of the story and it does seem rather likely that this will be particularly disappointing for those who see it when the book in question is a whodunit. I'm really sorry if any of you have been disappointed after coming across these synopses on our website. We're all a bit red-faced about it here.

[Daisy]

I had a reply from a lady called Jenny - she also thanked me for drawing attention to the review and asked where I had seen it, so I replied to her saying I had followed a link from this site. It seems all is now well and I guess that mistake won't be made again! Thanks Egmont for your swift response.

[Tony Summerfield]

Maybe, in the interests of tack, diplomacy and politeness, the Gggrrrrrr should be deleted from the Topic heading.

All deleted as requested, you were absolutely right.

[Julie2owlsdene]

How lovely to see someone from Egmont on the forums. Hope you pay us many a visit Mike, you're most welcome.

[hope189]

I am indeed glad to hear of the immediate response. Welcome to the forums, Mike. Hope you visit us often.

[Egmont UK Ltd]

How lovely to see someone from Egmont on the forums. Hope you pay us many a visit Mike, you're most welcome.

I am indeed glad to hear of the immediate response. Welcome to the forums, Mike. Hope you visit us often.

Well, thank you very much for the welcome. Realistically, I'm not going to get on here often (they tend to keep me fairly busy around here), but I was pleased that we were alerted to the mistake we'd made and I thought it important to respond to the community quickly and directly.

In all seriousness though, we do make mistakes from time to time and we genuinely welcome feedback from readers, parents, groups like this one or anyone else who happens to take an interest. I won't post an email address on here for obvious reasons, but there is a general contact email on our website that you are more than welcome to use.

By all means use the forum to discuss our antics and your feelings about it, but if you want to be sure that your feedback will reach us quickly, every mail that comes through our website is sent to someone in the team who can get something done about it.

[Tony Summerfield]

A taster for you all of one of the new covers, I really like it, but it will be interesting to see what others think. The other three can be seen in the Cave.



I have had it confirmed by Egmont that the cover is the only change, the internal text has not been altered at all.