December 15, 2000

Book Series at University Presses

To the Editor:

Lindsay Waters's "Are University Presses Producing Too Many Series for Their Own Good?" answers the question in the title with an emphatic Yes (The Review, October 27). Such series, so his contention runs, have produced a flood of insignificant books because university presses prefer to hire hack academic editors to puff up their lists rather than fork out salaries for additional staff members. Series editors are professors without a sense of intellectual coherence or

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