Word: hup
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...haven’t tried to slip a manuscript under the thin-rimmed glasses of Bill Sisler. While Byerly Hall is stingy enough with a 10.9 percent acceptance rate, it’s outclassed by the enigmatic Kittridge Hall just past the Quad, home to Harvard University Press (HUP) and Sisler, its director. Just 140 new books a year make it past the four layers of internal editing, outside reviews and faculty consideration to see the light of print, while at least 10 times that number find their way to the circular file annually. And while rejection from the College...
...sending postdocs and professors on the path to stardom isn’t high on Sisler’s list of priorities. Over his 12 years as director, he has improved communication between editors, expanded the sciences book list, investigated taking HUP online and consolidated the power of his own office. As the rest of the industry has caught up to the innovations that modernized HUP 30 years ago, Sisler has kept Harvard at the forefront of the publishing world. The ever-increasing numbers of academic dreams he defers are nothing more than the unavoidable human collateral damage from keeping...
...negligible mass-market appeal. But while they still do not exist to make a profit, they are subject to constantly increasing pressures to make ends meet. Harvard led the way for the industry’s response to fiscal reality in the early 1970’s, according to HUP Marketing Director Paul Adams, when then-University President Derek C. Bok hired Arthur Rosenthal, the head of commercial publishing house BasicBooks, to run HUP. Rosenthal brought a more market-driven approach to the press, actively promoting books and publishing works of greater general interest, and bringing HUP dramatically closer...
HUP’s competitors quickly followed Rosenthal’s direction, and the Chinese wall around the academic press began to crumble. Today, Sisler says, the University expects HUP to be financially self-sufficient—a tall order in the current economy even for strictly commercial publishing houses...
...bravura of aerials, Miller may prove that when it comes to the Olympics, speed still thrills. Certainly Europe hasn't lost its "hup, hup, hup" for slalom. Two weeks ago in Schladming, Austria, for instance, Miller won a World Cup slalom in front of a roaring crowd of 50,000. "Everyone's talking about him," says U.S. technical coach Jesse Hunt. "They know him by his first name," as if he were a soccer star...