January 18, 2002

Breaking the Unfair Rules of Scholarly Publishing

By LEONARD CASSUTO

The year was 1993. The situation was tense. A young assistant professor of English, his career in the balance, had a manuscript to publish. Although much too worldly to believe that he would otherwise perish, he was convinced that the alternative would be a life spent living in a cardboard box reciting poetry for spare change from passersby. A book equals tenure, he had been told when he was hired, and the tenure decision would come in about a year and a half. The author knew almost nothing

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