Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press on publishing

Interesting comments from Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press, on academic publishing. Here?s a brief excerpt:

University presses will survive and continue to evolve for this reason as well ?that while new modes of scholarship continue to forecast ?the death of the author,? the author is far from dead. Take it from a university press publisher, they bang down our doors, and not just to satisfy tenure and promotion requirements. And scholarly authors care: they revise diligently in response to peer review and editorial feedback, obsess over how their monographs are edited, titled, produced, publicized, and sold. Authorship is more than communication; many of the best academic blog authors are also recent university press authors. As long as there are scholars who consider themselves authors, there will be university presses.

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Source: http://progressivegeographies.com/2012/11/15/douglas-armato-director-of-university-of-minnesota-press-on-publishing/

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