December 9, 2005
Books When You Want Them
University presses sustain the shrinking market for scholarly monographs with new digital-printing technology
Professors have always depended on university presses to publish the scholarly books that help faculty members earn promotion and tenure. But demand for those monographs is usually limited, to say the least.
A typical scholarly book sells only a few hundred copies within the first year or two.
Yet university presses, because of the high cost of printing a book,
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