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...book itself scored pretty highly for Light and Harvard University Press (HUP). It has sold more than 90,000 copies since it was published in March of 2001—strong figures for an academic press, according to Kathy Duffy, a sales representative at Harvard University Press. I mentioned the book to at least a dozen people and everyone who graduated from high school after it was published had heard of it. Many had received it as a graduation gift from their mother/father/high school forensics coach. Several had picked it up on their own per the recommendation of Harvard orientation...
...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...