University Presses Take Different Approaches to Making Cuts

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Academic publishing is where developments in scholarship meet the bottom line. And lately, it hasn't been a happy meeting place.

Presses struggle with increased production costs, falling sales, and diminished subsidies from sponsoring universities. Scholars must make calculations of a different kind. What areas of research will satisfy not...

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