November 28, 2008
University Press, With Amazon, Revives and Sells Out-of-Print Books
Like homesteaders sitting on land with untapped oil reserves, many university presses possess a rich but underused resource: out-of-print titles. The challenge has been how best to drill into that resource — how to let readers know about books that have been out of print for years or decades, and then make it easy for them to buy copies.
Many presses have been testing out print-on-demand and other ways of delivering old books to new readers. This month, the University of
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