an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 10/07/25 at 23:08:04:

It looks like the "Coming Soon" page was updated in the last day or two. Not much changed - three new items were added and one book was moved to the "What's New" page. At least, there's now an opening book in the "Coming Soon" area: The Benko Bible Vol 1, which is already being discussed by TonyRo and others in the Daring Defences section of the forum. The Benko book is published by Russell Enterprises, so I'm still concerned that the three major publishers that comprise the NIC Group don't have an opening book in the works. I hope they're just slow in making their plans public.

Well, the Quality Chess website recently became just a page on the New in Chess site. I noticed this yesterday. However, Quality Chess has been part of the New in Chess Group for over a year. As stated on the new QC page, "In 2024 we merged operations with Popular Chess and New in Chess".  However, they go on to say, "while keeping our identity". Presumably this statement means they'll continue to publish books as Quality Chess. 

Popular Chess (formerly Everyman Chess) still had a separate website yesterday, but I just checked, and it's also been switched to a page on the NIC site.

One feature that I liked on the old Quality Chess site was the blog, where readers could direct comments and inquiries to Jacob Aagaard, John Shaw, and other QC editors and authors. It was one of the few places where we enjoyed such access to those involved in chess publishing. Even though the discussions and exchanges in the blog haven't been as lively recently as in its heyday, it was still potentially useful. Sadly, it seems to have disappeared in the transition to the NIC site.

One other worrisome development that I noticed when perusing the NIC site: there's not much to look forward to among the books in the "Coming Soon" section. Very little is new, and the page is dominated by the re-releases of the five My Great Predecessors volumes. There are three second/new editions of books previously released and two print versions of Chessable courses. Apparently the only truly new book is an account by a WIM about her relationship with Bobby Fischer.  For those of us on this forum, the total absence of opening books is of especial concern. I had hoped that at least a few opening volumes would continue to be published, but perhaps the total changeover to products such as those offered by Chessable and Modern-chess has been faster than I expected.