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...light of the closing of Harvard University Press’ display room in the Holyoke Center, HUP sales director Susan Donnelly said to The Crimson last July that publishers have been dealt a “double-whammy” by the financial crisis and the transition to digital media...
...display room’s costs consisted of rent and staff salaries, according to Donnelly. In addition to the display room worker who was laid off, HUP fired three staffers in marketing, two in editorial, and one in design—a total of seven layoffs. But HUP is not planning on reducing publishing output, Donnelly emphasized...
...HUP has also recently signed a deal with Scribd, an online startup founded and headed by a young Harvard duo: John R. “Trip” Adler '06 and Jared Friedman, a Harvard dropout who was a Computer Science concentrator in Cabot House. The deal would put nearly 1,000 of HUP’s books online, making them downloadable at costs determined by HUP...
Scribd would take 20 percent of the profits, and HUP 80 percent. Approximately 300 of HUP’s books are already on Scribd’s web site, according to Adler...
...University Presses have also already signed on with Scribd. The company started discussing a deal with HUP about a month ago, according to Adler, after HUP started uploading books to the Web site on their...