Everyman Chess leaving the publishing business?

Everyman Chess hasn't updated their publishing list in 5 months and there are no forthcoming books beyond today's date showing on their list. 

Are they going to stop publishing?

I still get emails from them on new books, so who knows?  I hope not.

+1. Can't imagine them gone.

Are you kidding me? I've gotten regular email updates about new books and deals, at least every month, for the last year.

This is a special offer that I was emailed about from them TODAY.

Buy Garry Kasparov's magnificent book on Bobby Fischer for the reduced price of $19.99 and get Chess Secrets: Heroes of Classical Chess absolutely free for one month only.

I also have to add, now having used both their .cbv/.pgn direct download purchased books, as well as both print books and Amazon Kindle version books, and other chess apps like the one for Gambit Publications (John Nunn), I have to say that I can barely even deal with the other books, as the move/variation entry into Chessbase is so freaking onerous and such a huge waste of time.

SO much easier to just get it all-ready-to-go in database format, so you can focus on the learning, not the move entry. 

Well, they do have it on their website that they're beginning a new series called First Steps. They have also released a new book under that series First Steps: French Defense. The author of the book is, yes, Cyrus Lakdawala. Perhaps he will reign in the side talk in this new series. The new French Defense book wasn't in the publishing list. Perhaps someone has just dropped the ball in updating it. 

Maybe they just don't update their website?

No, they update their website all the time. You've just been lagging in terms of keeping up with their updates. If you really care about their updates, just subscribe to their feed - it's not obnoxious and I only get updates like 1x/month about their specials. (lately they've all been 2-for-1s, but none have interested me.)

And just for kicks, I have to add again that I don't like Cyrus Lakdawala's style at all, and can't understand why they've chosen him to write the majority of their new books.  

His play style and choice of games is perfectly fine, but his annotations are frequently unclear, and not entertaining for the amount of noneducational wordiness he throws in there. 

I'm not a fan of his writing style either. He hasn't always written in that way though. I have a book on the London System that was published in 2010 by Everyman Chess and he is the author. There is very little if any clowning around in that book and I like it best amongst the several books I have by him. 

To be fair to him, he doesn't do it as much in Tal: Move by Move, which is his most recent book.

Funny. That's the exact book I have, "Play the London", and sure enough, he goes into a bunch of needless wordiness in there, as well as omitting some analysis in a lot of variations that are 'obvious' to him, but not at all clear to me.

I will grant you though, that he's much better in that book than his "Modern Defense" book. Because the Modern Defense is such a counterintuitive and counterattacking defense as black, it just opens him up to a world of verbose diarrhea, no joke. 

I will add however that if you ignore his comments, his game choices are pretty good. I used to get slaughtered by the KID if I played the London, but after going thru his sample games and learning the setup, I definitely have a significant win plus record with it. I'm now finally tackling London vs QID which is my other weak spot with the London, and it's already paying dividends, as it's very commonly seen.

I actually do pretty well with the Modern Defense as well - I'd play it more, but it's complex enough a defense that it's still hard to play as black in blitz time controls since white gets the straightforward attacks and black has to fight back counterintuitively.

While we're on openings for a moment, my repertoire is the London as white, the Tarrasch Defense against 1 d4 and the 2...Nf6 Scandinavian as black.

However, if, and that's a big if, the New In Chess repertoire book titled The Fianchetto Solution due out next month is good and suits me I'll dump my repetoire for it because to me it would be nice having my entire repertoire (white and black) in one book that uses similiar themes with both white and black. The book sounds ideal on the club level, but that remains to be seen.