We have been so busy it's not true!

Since our last post we have been inundated with orders - from single books to multiples! We supply the British Legion and they recently bought a lot of titles for their library. The RAF Museum at Hendon is putting a lot of our titles onto their bookshelves, and their latest catalogue brought in even more orders. Then we got a large order from Napoleon's Bookshop in Sydney (Australia). To add to this last news we are very pleased to say that we are negotiating with the owner of Napoleon's for them to print and issue many of our titles below the equator. This deal will mean a lessening of work here, and a better service in terms of delivery time to all our customers south of 0 degrees. Needless to say the standards we have built up over the years will continue in the titles printed in Australia, and there will be no changes to the content. Furthermore we hope in the New Year to have some really groundbreaking news on a new contract we are at present negotiating - more when it happens!

RAF Museum new catalogue

The RAF Museum has just issued its latest catalogue of books and other goodies available from the museum shop. Included are some of our reprints, which can be bought through the catalogue, from the shop, or, of course, direct from us. If ever you are able to get to the museum, we would recommend a visit. There is a really wonderful collection of aircraft, knowledgeable staff and it is a wonderland for all boys (aged 5 to pensionable age). The schools service also does a great job and there are often special displays and talks.

Sorry we have been quiet for so long

We have been working hard on various aspects of the downloading system, which should go live in the New Year. Otherwise we have been printing some large orders for home and overseas. Our latest big order is from the British Legion Poppy Tours, and we have just sent off the second load of books to Torsten Belger at GermandotMilitaria.com
All in all a busy month, and this month looks like being even more frantic as the university libraries start to order.

Postal strike

The postal strike planned for Thursday and Friday this coming week will not affect us really, although we will NOT post out anything between Wednesday lunch and Monday next week. Hopefully the backlog will be cleared quite quickly and we will be able to get back to normal very soon. If you want something urgently after Wed lunch let us know - we have a cunning plan!

Emailed books all received in perfect condition

After the initial teething problems and some recipients not having quite enough mail storage space with their mail providers, we are pleased to say that all this weeks emailed books have been received by our customers, and that they are all in perfect condition. We will continue using this albeit slow and fragmentary service until the new download system is up and running properly. With over 600 items to upload to the server we are not quite sure when this will be, but we will make every effort to get the work done as soon as possible whilst making sure that all the uploaded files are complete and suitably reduced from printing to electronic size.

First tranche of electronic copies sent

Today, after getting better and better as we went along, the first lot of volumes in electronic format went out to the buyers. We will be recomposing up all our files so that they can eventually be downloaded. We are applying security to the files and they will not print out at the same quality as we provide in our books, but they will be readable and so useful.
Just as an aside, this method is NOT available to trade customers. Also the service discount does not apply.

First step on the way to downloading

We have completed Stage 1 of the downloading system, which is not the finished product, but will allow readers to obtain downloads from us without too much hassle.
All you have to do is go to our web site and order the books you want to download. Enter all your details including credit card numbers (our secure server really is!) and instead of an address just put "download" in the address line.
We will then process the order, charge you just 50% of the price of the book, clear payment, and then your file will be sent as an email.
Later on this will be automatic, but for now this means you can start downloading almost immediately - and save on postage as well.
Disregard any mention of postage charges in your acknowledgment email from us.
So, off to the web site ... www.mlrsbooks.co.uk