From the Editorial Director: University Presses Face the Future
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Lynn Rosen
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● To compete successfully with both commercial publishers and the technology giants, we need to build strategic partnerships and alliances within the academy and beyond.
Leila W. Salisbury
Director, University Press of Mississippi
We can't warehouse books we won't sell and expect to stay in the black. Decisions made about printing options and quantities options need to be considered from a variety of perspectives—sales channels, short- and long-term demand, makeup of the book, and the overall financial prospects for a title. Through considered use of short-run, POD and vendor automatic restocking plans, we reduced our production budget by 25 percent and net inventory as a percentage of sales by 9 points over three years. We then put the money we saved into digital conversions and a DAM system.
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