Word: hu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HU Press display room in Holyoke Center looks like your average strip mall bookstore--clean, quiet, well stocked with the latest offerings. But the process a book goes through to get the official stamp of Harvard University is vastly different than in a commercial enterprise...
...thing, authors don't feel the same pressure to sell lots of books. HU Press is a nonprofit business, and academic books aren't expected to sell much...
...endowment funds go towards improving the quality of HU Press books, said HU Press Director William P. Sisler. In addition, all books published under the Belknap imprint are subsidized...
...HU Press is also feeling the effects of arobust economy for academic books. As studentscontinue to pour into universities, the demand foracademic books continues to grow...
...HU Press publishes primarily in the humanities,social sciences and sciences. Since the Pressalready subsidizes the cost of its books, Harvardstudents do not receive extra discounts--butLindsay says it's rare an undergraduate would beusing an HU Press book anyway...