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Maritime publisher Brown, Son and Ferguson
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Oct 24, 10:33 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2018 Oct 24, 10:33 -0700
"Glasgow maritime publisher Brown, Son and Ferguson is 163 years old, and still in the hands of its original owners... The technical books sell well, none more so than Brown's Nautical Almanac, which has been published yearly since 1876 and now runs to 1,200 pages of data relating to tides, currents, planetary movement, buoys and beacons, inter-port distances and pilotages – a mass of "Valuable Matter" as the catalogue has it. It is known as the Sailor's Bible, though probably not to sailors, and sells at least 12,000 copies a year at £64 a copy. Altogether, more than 90% of book sales are exports, mainly to chandlers in ports from Rotterdam to Hobart." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/16/publishing-tough-nautical-almanacs That article in The Guardian is five years old, but Brown's Nautical Almanac is still sold by the company. At least, the 2018 edition is available. Don't know about next year. https://www.skipper.co.uk/
