Owing to a lot going on at our digital publishing arm, Syntagma Media, the opening list at Dial Publishing has had to be postponed until 2008. However, we intend to set the ball rolling with an early series of chapbooks on a variety of topics. More later.

Recap : Dial Publishing began life in 1999 as the heir to Hermitage Press, our educational publishing arm which concentrated on distance-learning courses and textbooks.

It was specifically aimed at a British Government scheme which subsidized 80 percent of the buyer’s cost of approved courses. It was abruptly withdrawn overnight when Ministers found that Animal rights activists and others were defrauding the system.

Now we are relaunching Dial as a general non-fiction publisher, with two titles, one for our edgewise imprint and another for Hermitage.