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How strongly do customer wishes — e.g. for a Jane Austen or Goethe edition — flow into Montblanc's decisions on the Writers Edition?

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Individual customer emails are likely to have hardly direct influence on the selection of a Writers Edition but also do no harm and are partly internally forwarded. Alongside market interest, above all legal questions play an important role, because descendants or rights holders must agree to the use of an author's name; in the past, editions have already failed because of this. The range tries with lines like the Diva series to specifically address female target groups but is criticised because of small nib proportions and unfavourably placed threads (especially on the Greta Garbo). A real 'ladies' Writers Edition' like an Austen or Poe in standard proportions is therefore expressly wished by collectors.

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