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“New Leaders Bring Marketing Chops to University Presses”

September 4, 2015

The constriction of budgets, the decline of the monograph market, the arrival of digital publishing, the rise of open access: University presses have weathered many changes over the past decade. One recent shift hasn’t gotten much attention outside the scholarly publishing community: a major turnover in press leadership, as longtime directors retire and make way for a new set of leaders, many of them with increasingly valued experience in marketing.

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