Penguin UK Postpones Date for Full Warehouse Operations; “Reps are Acknowledging that Christmas will be Terrible” Publishing News is starting to add some teeth to their coverage of the ongoing Penguin UK warehouse story. One “senior figure” says “Reps are acknowledging that Christmas will be terrible, but they are fearful of admitting it.” Another remarks: “They’ll have the new Jamie Oliver on the van, but not core fiction.” Penguin itself is now officially admitting that the new fully automated warehouse will not be, um, fully automated, until next March “at the earliest” (i.e. later than that). Out of one side […]
