Greetings Platt,
I offer this for your consideration. It's a comment I extracted from
an interview, conducted by Daniel Blue, with the Nietzschean scholar,
Christa Davis Aumpora:
http://www.nietzschecircle.com/interview.html
DB: I had no idea that it was that hard to republish works. That
strikes at the heart of what might seem a purpose of academia.
CDA: Right. The purpose of a university press used to be to identify
and publish the very best quality research it could find without
regard for its financial viability. In those days you knew that
university presses didn't have to direct their acquisitions decisions
based on marketing considerations. Now university presses have a
requirement to be financially self-sustaining, so increasingly,
marketing decisions are playing a role in acquisitions decisions. And
as for journal publishing, Blackwell owns very many of the quality
philosophy journals, and since it is a commercial publisher, and so
its very reason for being is to make money and as much as it can, it
can name its price. It's very hard to escape, and that was my greatest nemesis.
-
Marsha
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