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...academically credible books with popular appeal. Today, these books constitute up to 40 percent of HUP’s catalogue. “A place like Harvard is uniquely positioned to bring scholarship to a general audience that readers who are not specialists can trust,” says HUP Humanities Editor Kathleen McDermott. “Yet we do it in ways that they can access—books that they can read without having to keep up in the field...To be able to manage the popular books and the academic books is really a feat, and Harvard?...
...always, getting a book published by a university press,” Greenblatt says. “So obviously university presses are to a considerable degree participating in the tenure process whether they fully acknowledge they are doing that or not.” And many of the manuscripts HUP reviews have tenure application written all over them. “A lot of books that we publish, the author is either up for tenure or going to be up for tenure,” Adams says. “A lot of the books we do are either revised...
...proposal must be approved by an acquisitions editor and at a general editorial meeting before an author is invited to complete a manuscript. Once a draft is finished, HUP sends out a copy to a few experts for review. “It forces the author if it’s done right to really think about what his peers are going to say before the book is reviewed out there,” Sisler says. “Instead of getting whacked when the book is published, we can fix things before the book ever sees the light...
Since taking control of HUP in 1990, Sisler has quietly centralized power in his office. When HUP’s last editor-in-chief, Aida Donald, stepped down in June 2000, Sisler conducted a search to replace her, but, he says succinctly, no one “fit the bill.” No one besides Bill Sisler, that is—he took on the responsibilities of editor-in-chief himself instead. “The bottom line,” he says, “is the buck stops here...
Despite working as a humanities editor at Johns Hopkins University Press and Oxford University Press before taking over HUP, Sisler pushed the press to expand in the sciences. Regardless of field, Sisler says he is uncompromising in his dedication to publishing top-tier scholarship. “The number one thing is quality,” he says. “If you make $5 million a year and publish junk, that’s not fulfilling our mission. If we publish the best stuff we can find and come close to breaking even, that should be of value...