Scholarly Books, the Coin of the Realm of Knowledge

By PETER GIVLER

Scholars, the press, and publishers have expended a lot of time, angst, and ink in recent years worrying about diminishing support for scholarly publishing.

To take just one recent example: Andre Schiffrin, in The Chronicle last summer, argued that meager university support forces university presses to focus on the familiar and shun the controversial. If that continues, he said, universities and their presses risk violating a fundamental public trust: pursuing

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