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The market for university presses is almost entirely other university libraries, potentially other professors, and the exceedingly rare specialist. But when yo
by beezlebroxxxxxx 3y ago
The market for university presses is almost entirely other university libraries, potentially other professors, and the exceedingly rare specialist.
But when you need tenure, and you need to get published, they're the 1000x more willing to publish you than one of the major popular presses.
- UncleMeat 3y agoThey also do academic reviews in ways that popular presses don't. If you are a history professor, a book published by Penguin isn't going to look as good in your tenure packet as a book published by Oxford.
- robotresearcher 3y agoPlus textbooks. Some of which sell in volume, like SICP mentioned above.