Over the decades, Reader's Digest often released book titles that covered the same subject matter(s) the Time Life Books series did, but were in the vast majority of cases single non-series title releases and therefore obviously less in-depth than the Time Life iterations were. One rare exception to the rule concerned their 2004–07 "Reader's Digest Illustrated History of the World". series which was comparable to Time Life's earlier Time Frame aka History of the World series. "Amazon.com customer reviews". though, testify to the Time Life series being perceived as the qualitative better one.
The UK offices had from 1983 until 1988 been temporarily housed in Bradford, as UK citizens were instructed at the time to direct their book/subscription orders to, "Time-Life Books c/o Time-Life International Ltd., FREEPOST, P.O. Box 180, Bradford BD7 2TT", as specified on contemporary mail order forms. This was done because their 153 New Bond Street, London W1Y0AA office building was being refurbished in this period. The UK offices moved back into their old premises in 1989, where they remained until their closure in late-August 2009. The office building still carries its original "Time & Life Building". name, so christened when it was built in 1951–53 as the then-European headquarters of "Time & Life International, Ltd." before Amsterdam took over as such in 1976.
"Atlas des Civilisations". LibrairieDumau.fr (in French).; while Time-Life Books B.V. was commissioned to publish the French-language edition of the series as well, it was not for the concurrent German-language Bildatlas der Weltkulturen variant. That commission went to the local Weltbild Verlag [de], Augsburg, publisher.
Over the decades, Reader's Digest often released book titles that covered the same subject matter(s) the Time Life Books series did, but were in the vast majority of cases single non-series title releases and therefore obviously less in-depth than the Time Life iterations were. One rare exception to the rule concerned their 2004–07 "Reader's Digest Illustrated History of the World". series which was comparable to Time Life's earlier Time Frame aka History of the World series. "Amazon.com customer reviews". though, testify to the Time Life series being perceived as the qualitative better one.
The UK offices had from 1983 until 1988 been temporarily housed in Bradford, as UK citizens were instructed at the time to direct their book/subscription orders to, "Time-Life Books c/o Time-Life International Ltd., FREEPOST, P.O. Box 180, Bradford BD7 2TT", as specified on contemporary mail order forms. This was done because their 153 New Bond Street, London W1Y0AA office building was being refurbished in this period. The UK offices moved back into their old premises in 1989, where they remained until their closure in late-August 2009. The office building still carries its original "Time & Life Building". name, so christened when it was built in 1951–53 as the then-European headquarters of "Time & Life International, Ltd." before Amsterdam took over as such in 1976.
"Atlas des Civilisations". LibrairieDumau.fr (in French).; while Time-Life Books B.V. was commissioned to publish the French-language edition of the series as well, it was not for the concurrent German-language Bildatlas der Weltkulturen variant. That commission went to the local Weltbild Verlag [de], Augsburg, publisher.
Schwegler, Petra (10 September 2009). "Time Life zieht sich aus Deutschland zurück". WuV.de (in German).; According to the individual volume colophons in the 2008-09 Spanish-language version of The Third Reich series, European legal matters such as licensing were afterwards handled by "Direct Holdings Holland B.V.", the Dutch branch of the worldwide holding company that had acquired Time-Life in December 2003, located at the time on Herikerbergweg 7, 1101CN Amsterdam. The company also became mentioned as the official publisher in European Time-Life series volume reprints, such as those of the Dutch Mens en mythe version of the Myths and Mankind series, which was still running in the Netherlands at the time and which had started out as a Time-Life Books B.V. series.
