Diary
John Sutherland: The crisis in academic publishing, 22 January 2004
“... weigh relatively lightly with promotion committees. The critic, not the editor or packager, is king. Publishers such as Ashgate (and to a lesser extent Palgrave Macmillan) use the tactic of pushing out a lot of monographs, none of which will sell a lot, but which will bring in a good return en masse. They have a fruitfly lifespan; if the publisher gets it ... ”