1. The university press publishes academic titles. 2. And university presses are busy expanding their Irish lines. 3. Bicknell said he got the feeling that publishers and agents thought the novel might be of interest only to a university press and had no prospects for big sales. 4. Bookstores are also carrying more books from university presses, which tend toward more scholarly histories and biographies. 5. But he added that the university presses would never become self-supporting if they maintained their primary goal, the scholarly quality of their publications. 6. But we were talking about university presses, and books for Christmas gifts to good friends and relatives. 7. But, as financially strained libraries are slashing budgets for books, university presses are cutting back, sometimes drastically, on publishing specialized monographs, like doctoral dissertations. 8. Except for university presses and nonprofits like Beacon, book publishing is a business, and business has been poor lately. 9. Field workers no longer have to wait as their manuscripts languish on the shelves of understaffed, underfinanced university presses. 10. For a university press to sponsor a novel was unorthodox, but LSU followed its own lead with more fiction titles, and other academic presses responded accordingly. |
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