Sit,—Mr. Peter Forster earns our gratitude over• the disregard of
books by the television powers that be (Spectator, August 29). Lest your readers think that Publishers do nothing, this is hardly so. A body of • Publicity boys and girls gleefully announces to whom all books should be sent. The name duly recorded, off go the review copies with undoubted high-firing ex- citement of the wonderful material the book contains for television viewers. As far as I know there are no figures available of how many books are reviewed or made programmes about to those sent. 1 should imagine as often as I have backed the correct number at the roulette tables here—which I leave to your imagination, dr. But when one thinks of the immense variety of games or programmes that could be built around books and those new and immensely popular series of paperbacks, one just wonders—but then, don't we know from so many `tele' viewers that they have no time for reading, so 1 suppose the television gentlemen know best.—Yours faithfully,
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