Publication Schedule

[Vincent Haines]

Hands up, who’s stolen this week’s Tuesday update?

Also, the Publication Schedule states that the next issue of TDL is on 15th April? Am I missing something (apart from this week’s Tuesday update, that is – although still 20 mins left at time of writing)?

Also, also, were we forewarned that Forum postings would show our proper names instead of user ‘nicknames’?

[Stephen Bland]

The revised publication schedule from February, which was mentioned in TDL, is that the monthly print edition will be released on the last Friday of the month (previously the third Friday). All other weeks will have the email update. Thus there is no email weekly update this week because the March monthly print edition is due out on Friday.

This schedule may be disrupted by public holidays.

In line with the new schedule, the April print edition is due out on the last Friday which is the 28th.

As for the forum names, this concerns the tech side of it with which I do not deal but have passed your comment immediately to the relevant person at my publisher, Southbank. I can’t promise though that they will be willing or able to change it.

[Vincent Haines]

That doesn’t quite make sense, Stephen.

The last Friday of this month is on 31st – end of next week – so a weekly update was due yesterday, and the monthly print edition for March is not due this Friday.

I agree that the April print edition is due on 28th, but the Publication Schedule on this website says 15th.

[Stephen Bland]

Following your message I have had further discussions with Southbank to clarify this matter. The old publication routine until the recent change was to aim for readers to receive the print edition of TDL on the third Saturday.

When the new schedule was introduced recently, it was decided that for most months the issue date of the print edition will be the fourth Friday so that readers should receive it, post permitting, the next day. Occasionally though this may need to be varied due to public holidays or production bottlenecks. Additionally, an email PDF version of it is released late Friday and readers will receive that before the print edition.

When you raised your query, the website must still have been showing the old schedule and I have asked them to update it.

Hope this is now clear and apologies for the confusion.

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