Academic reviews crisis

Despite some gloomy predictions, the academic book remains in good health. Most academics in the humanities and social sciences are committed to it as essential to the health of their disciplines: a means of expressing complex arguments and communicating the best scholarship. But there are external constraints, even if these do not derive from the nature of the book itself. Many titles depend on core sales to libraries and while prices may seem high, pressure on library budgets derives from the inordinate cost of journal subscriptions and not from books. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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