June 17, 2005

Survival Strategies for Academic Publishing

By JOHN B. THOMPSON

The new millennium is proving to be a testing time for academic publishers. Whereas the "long decade" from the early 1980s to 2000 was a buoyant period for many presses in the field of academic publishing, including many university presses, the period since 2001 has brought a rude awakening. Growth rates of university presses have fallen to the lowest levels in many years, returns from booksellers have reached unprecedented heights, and some university presses have been faced with the

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