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While all these elements have contributed to the improved financial status of the Press, the major force working within the Press is Rosenthal himself. Unlike Carroll, he combines impeccable editorial credentials with a shrewd and solid publishing mind. He is aware of publishing market trends and has already begun gearing the Press's activities to these trends. "Books always feel the economic pinch first," Rosenthal said last week. "The problems that the Press ran into here were largely not understanding the market. After the fantastic money of the Johnson years, the Press didn't prepare for less affluent times...
WHILE THE Press is in better condition today than it was a year ago, there are still distinct problems that Rosenthal must deal with before the Press will be wholly sound. The foremost of these concerns the very nature of the list of titles that the Press publishes. According to Rosenthal, 120 of the Press's 2300 titles comprise 50 per cent of the Press's business. And of these 2300 over 1000 sell less than $500 annually. With this fact in mind, Rosenthal wants to improve the editorial "mix" of the books on the Press's list of publications...
Beyond this, Rosenthal would like to see the Press expand its paperback publications. In the past the Press often did not publish even its own most popular titles, selling them instead to the big commercial companies. "My predecessors at the Press felt that paperbacks were not an integral part of university press publications," Rosenthal said. "I have exactly the opposite view. We should be publishing our own best paperbacks. Our paperback list is almost first priority for us to strengthen." Through this step, as Rosenthal wrote in his Management Plan, "our own hardcover titles will be reserved...
Stimulated by the affirmative action program, many academics have recently done studies which discount several of the myths about women. One of these studies showed that married women PhDs publish more than male PhDs. Another, done by the National Academy of the women doctorates have somewhat greater academic ability than their male counterparts...
...Publish and be damned!" the Duke of Wellington scrawled across the letter of Harriette Wilson, a Mayfair call girl who threatened to blackmail him with her intimate memoirs. She published (in 1825) and he became Prime Minister (in 1828), recalls H. Montgomery Hyde, a former M.P. who studiously attempts in the Observer to place the current Lord Lambton-Lord Jellicoe sex scandals in historical per spective. Lloyd George was one of Britain's most notorious amorous Prime Ministers. But he was a man of stern principle, to wit: "Love is all right if you lose no time...