There has been a petition to try to save the staff at the Edinburgh Headquarters of Chamber Harrap which publishes the Chambers Dictionary. But now, despite all their efforts, it has been reported that the staff will be receiving redundancy notices. It seems that 27 members of staff are affected.

The Chambers side of the business will transfer to London and the Harrap operation will transfer to Paris. After 200 years of publishing history this is sad news for everyone involved.

Reference publishing has suffered in recent years because of the increase in online references.