Talk:Folio Society

message: The article says "A member simply has to buy four Folio Society books each year.", but according to http://www.foliosociety.com/aboutus/how_to_join.php there is no yearly requirement: "Joining us involves buying just four books, after that you can buy as many, or as few, as you wish." Does someone know if there is a yearly requirement?
-- Pseudovector Tue Jul  4 22:38:21 UTC 2006
I've been a Folio member for several years.  I have been required to purchase 4 books every year in order to maintain membership.138.162.128.55 16:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Membership 

message: Was this written by the Folio Society, or just a very satisfied member?
The user who originally wrote this (Marksroc) has only this page listed in his list of user contributions. Make your own conclusions. Goffrie 17:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Authorship 

message: This article is an advertisement. Which is a shame because I came here looking for NPOV encyclopedic info, not a sales pitch (I already know FS makes good books). I've tagged it with Template:Advert for now. I would edit it, but no nothing about the company. -- Stbalbach 05:09, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement 

message: I have today added a completely new text for this article, replacing the text that was rightly considered to be an advertisement. I am a member of The Folio Society but am not otherwise connected with it. With regard to the earlier query, I understand that one is indeed required to purchase four volumes per year of membership, and my text reflects this understanding.
I have retained the illustrations from the original entry.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sordel (talk • contribs) .
:Thank You, Sordel! Much better, well done, a great addition. -- Stbalbach 21:39, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Text 

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message: In the subsequent decades, the Society developed the technique of publishing series such as the collected novels of Dickens, Trollope, Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell and Conrad over several years, as a means of attracting and retaining members. This unreferenced sentence broadly suggests that The Folio Society pioneered the publication of collected works as a marketing strategy. A rather more subdued - and accurate - sentence might be, "In 1971 Folio was purchased by John Letts and Halfdan Lynner." A separate section in the article outlining a representative sampling of the authors re-published by The Folio Society might be appropriate. An breathless year-by-year listing seems excessive. TreacherousWays (talk) 03:20, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marketing sentence 

message: From the article: "... Many noted illustrators have worked for Folio. Charles Keeping provided drawings for the complete novels of Dickens, while Francis Mosley illustrated the works of both Hardy and Conrad. Paul Cox has contributed comic illustrations for, among others, seventeen volumes of novels by P. G. Wodehouse. Neil Packer contributed illustrations to I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves. The Society has supported a number of emerging artists, and also contemporary wood-engravers, especially Frank Martin, Peter Forster, Richard Shirley Smith, Peter Reddick, George Tute, Joan Hassall, Simon Brett and John Lawrence. Yes. Well, most of the wikilinks are either red-linked (no article associated) or just wrong (the Frank Martin link goes to a disambiguation page with no artists). I suggest that the following sentence is more informative and to the point: "Noted artists who have contributed to Folio Society publications include Francis Mosley (the works of Hardy and Conrad), Paul Cox (P. G. Wodehouse and others), and Neil Packer (I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves). Joan Hassel and John Lawrence - recognized for their wood-engraving skill - have also illustrated Folio Society books." That last sentence is a bit ham-handed, but avoids the misleading links. TreacherousWays (talk) 03:41, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrators 

message: It would be useful to have some idea of the scope and nature of the Folio Society facility; how automated the process is, tons of paper consumer per year, gallons of ink, types of presses, antique equipment still in use, etc. I will look into this, but any help would be welcome. TreacherousWays (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Folio Society facilitites 

message: Here's something possibly encyclopedic: "The (Designer Bookbinders) society has annually sponsored and promoted The Bookbinding Competition since January 1975, when it assumed responsibility for the Thomas Harrison Memorial Competition, founded in 1957." Publications of The Folio Society have been the set book for the bookbinding competition for at least the past few years (I saw entries from 2002 onward), there have been Folio Society employees on the judging committee, and a Folio Society prize is awarded. The reference web site would be here. Not sure how notable the competition itself might be, but this could flesh out the article without using the words "breathtaking" or "magnificent". TreacherousWays (talk) 17:28, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Designer Bookbinders 

message: " ... The society has also recently introduced a series of deluxe, limited edition publications at higher prices, often facsimiles published in conjunction with institutions such as The British Library ...  I removed this sentence because it was out of context (the rest of the section dealt with letterpress-printed books) and because of the puffy terms "deluxe" and "limited edition". There is a kernel of information here, though; broader distribution of otherwise-unavailable documents is notable, as is the special access granted for purposes of reproduction. Perhaps another editor can help by finding out what was reproduced and where the reproductions ended up? TreacherousWays (talk) 19:09, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facsimiles from the British Library 

message: " ... Since his first binding design in 1981, David Eccles has become one of the most prolific of Folio’s designers. Amongst his many projects for Folio has been the series sometimes known as "Victorian Epics of Exploration" which began with Richard Burton's The Source of the Nile in 1993 ... " The illustrator David Eccles has no web site, and I have been unable to find any reference whatever to his contributions. A search of The Folio Society website yields only two books, even though Eccles has certainly done more work for them than just that (The Complete Winnie the Pooh, for instance). Any references for this artist would be very welcome. TreacherousWays (talk) 15:53, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed from "Production trends and bindings" 

message: Unable to locate information on who won the prize. Is this prize in any way noteworthy? Text removed to talk area pending some sort of justification for inclusion.
The Folio Prize (previously called the Literature Prize) "recognises and celebrates the best fiction from around the world," on the condition that the book is published in the UK and written in the English language.The New Statesman
Founded by Andrew Kidd, Managing Director of literary agency Aitken Alexander Associates, it is open to writers from any country in the world. The recipient is selected by The Folio Academy, a group of over 100 writers and critics, not by publishers or agents. The first Folio Prize is due to be awarded in March 2014.
TreacherousWays (talk) 11:02, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Folio Prize 

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