Word: sisler
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...happiest moment of Kubota's career was when Ichiro tallied his 258th hit of the 2004 season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old major-league record. "It felt so lucky to witness the breaking of a record that was set before I was born," says Kubota. "That might not happen even once in 100 years' time...
Finally, a book has to win the approval of the Syndics, a group of 12 senior faculty members that serve as “gatekeepers” for the Harvard name, according to Sisler. Although they rarely reject works, he says, “they are the quality control that justifies calling this the Harvard University Press...
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...
With declining revenues, the industry as a whole has been forced to cut its losses. “You can only lose so much money on so many books—the university doesn’t want to pay for this,” says Sisler. “So we have to say collectively, not just Harvard University Press, how many of these books can we lose money on?...Scholars in [unprofitable] disciplines are going to worry, ‘Where am I going to get my books published...