March 12, 2004

U. of Idaho Press to Shut Down, and U. of Georgia Press to See State Support Halved

By PETER MONAGHAN

DOWN AND OUT IN IDAHO: While some university presses are enjoying at least temporary relief from several years of financial woes, the news is not so good in Moscow, Idaho. The University of Idaho has announced that the University of Idaho Press, which was founded in 1972 and has published 8 to 10 titles each year, will cease operations on July 1.

Administrators, who said the closure comes after years of hemorrhaging money, noted that the press would be $385,600 in the red by the end of

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