September 7, 2007
Unfair Blame for University Presses
To the Editor:
The Chronicle's August 3 Hot Type summarizes "University Publishing in a Digital Age," a report by Ithaka, and presents a consensus that university presses have not kept pace with changes in communications. This is old news.
The economic underpinning of university presses and all academic publishing has been the library budgets of higher-education institutions, particularly large universities. While research and numbers of publications kept growing, library
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