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Harvard University Press, whose sales have fallen approximately 10 percent this past year, closed its 61-year-old display room in the Holyoke Center on June 30 after its yearly lease expired at the end of May, according to HUP sales director Susan Donnelly...
Donnelly explained that the display room has always been a net loss for HUP, but it was a cost that they were willing to subsidize until now. She said publishers have been dealt a “double-whammy” by the financial crisis and the transition to digital media...
Much like the rest of its industry, Harvard University Press is feeling the strain of the national economic downturn. Mary Kate Maco, publicity director of HUP, said that although the Press does not have specific numbers yet, she expects that sales declined similarly to the national average of 10 percent calculated by the American Association of University Presses. The AAUP’s recently-published survey reported that its member presses’ sales in both units and dollars are down roughly 10 percent for July through December of 2008 from the same period in 2007. Maco said that HUP...
...meant to debate the meanings of the sacred traditions in a secularized modern world,” Sandel said. “We’re both trying to make room in public and civic discourse for these discussions.” Natalie A. Smolenski, a sales representative at HUP and an organizer of the event, said that an underlying purpose of the forum was to discuss the role of the humanities at the university level. “The Humanities center at Harvard is a pioneering force,” she said. “It raises the most...
...wife, Abigail, exchanged over the course of their 54-year marriage. The charmingly mistake-filled early correspondence of John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, will be available for free as well. The Founding Families project, run by the Massachusetts Historical Society in conjunction with the Harvard University Press (HUP), is working to make 45 volumes of documents available on the society’s Web site by June 2008. Adams was the second U.S. president—and the first of seven with a Harvard College diploma. He graduated 14th in a class of 24—though class rank...