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This is the fourth in a series of posts offering a quick overview of what costs you might encounter when you publish an academic book. Because yes; even reputable presses will ask you to cover some of the expense of publishing. Let’s talk author copies As part of the terms of your contract, you should receive a [...] This is the third in a series of posts offering a quick overview of what costs you might encounter when you publish an academic book. Because yes; even reputable presses will ask you to cover some of the expense of publishing. Let’s talk jackets and cover images! This is a tough area to generalize in because individual [...] This is the second in a series of posts offering a quick overview of what costs you might encounter when you publish an academic book. Because yes; even reputable presses will ask you to cover some of the expense of publishing. Let’s talk royalties! I can hear you thinking: Wait just one minute! Aren’t publishers supposed to pay [...] Most of the time we don’t think about authors having to bear any of the costs of publication—but even among reputable academic presses, there will be expenses borne by the author, not the publisher. This is the first in a series of posts offering a quick overview of what costs you might encounter. Let’s talk indexing! Good academic [...] While searching out advice on nonfiction book proposals for you, I came across this tidbit: Acquisitions editors, your publisher’s “gate-keepers,”… are notoriously risk adverse. If a book doesn’t sell, or if an author doesn’t perform, they’re the one who has to answer their co-workers and superiors. On the other hand, even if a book turns out [...] To wrap up the conversation, here’s the third thing you should know—or remember—about peer review. (Item 1 is here; Item 2 is here.) Yes… From a purely monetary perspective, most referees provide essentially free labor. But… Editors have a vested interest in identifying referees who will care about the [...] To continue the discussion from Thursday, in response to this comment, here is the second of three things you should know—or remember—about peer review, and how it relates to the cost of academic books. Most reviewers are paid between $100 and $200 to read an average-length manuscript. The editorial director of a well-known foundation once [...] As I said, I was rankled by several of the comments in response to Yglesias’ post about The High Price of Scholarship. For example, Aqua Regia noted: “I’m pretty sure peer-reviewing is a pretty negligible cost of publishing. All the editor has to do is select a few names and send them the submitted paper. Like [...] Catching up on my blog reading yesterday, I came across these posts on the high cost of academic books: John Holbo opened with this: I hereby declare – for the benefit of anyone at Oxford UP who might be reading – that I was going to require my (probably 50-or-so) students next semester to buy [two of] [...] When you can score a new hardcover by Dan Brown or Jeannette Walls or Nicholas Kristof for less than $30—and often significantly less if you shop online sales—why does the average price of an academic hardcover hover around $60 or $75? Quite simply, it’s all about the market. We’re all smart people, so we understand that [...] |
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