Rice University Relaunches University Press -- Online Only
Peter Brantley sent a link to a Wall Street Journal article about the online-only relaunch of Rice University Press:
One of the nation's most prestigious universities is resurrecting its defunct academic press online -- a move that adds a new wrinkle to the debate over who will profit from Web publishing. Rice University in Houston will today announce plans to relaunch its Rice University Press -- a money-losing venture that went out of business 10 years ago -- under a new all-digital model. Although the new press will solicit and edit manuscripts the old-fashioned way, it won't produce traditional books. The publishing house will instead post works online at a new Web site, where people can read a full copy of the book free. They can also order a regular, bound copy from an on-demand printer, at a cost far less than picking up the book in a store.One more sign of just how much publishing is changing. The combination of online access and print on demand is here, and we'll be seeing variations of this story regularly from now on. Books will no longer go out of print -- they'll just go "POD" (Print on Demand). And long tail publishers will publish straight to POD.
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Who can I contact about submitting a proposal to Rice University Press?
Thanks,
Alma H. Bond, Ph.D.
I am interested in what the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION wrote about the publication of online books with on demand printing options.
I am retired, but have 20 published books, including an online book on the future of education that just has been translated for a print edition by a univeersity press in China.
However the big punblishing houses are not much interested in an elderly author like me.
It appears that Rice would not be interested in the projects I have, but perhaps you could counsel me on how to find a elecontric publisher with print on demand that might be interested in
(1) I have a historical novel about rich Indians
(2) I am teaching a fall course here on the novels of Morris West and the questions they raise about the failure of global institutions.'
(3)I have a manuscript on a juvenile, a `murder mystfery' on who killed a kid's interest in school. I want it now to be not just for kids, so a larger audience might be intereste in this juvenile generaiton's interest in electronic games, etc.
(4) I have an `autobiographical book about a year sent camping across No. Africa and in the MIddle east that involved us with Islam (I spent a day with the Grand Mufti in Damascus)
(5) Two publishers have asked to reprint the book I wrote for the YMCA prfss (at their request)SEXUAL EXPERIENCE BETWEEN MEN AND BOYS ON DATA gathered when I was teacing at Yale.The interested publishers did not want to revise it to include what was left out about Catholic priests, and my completley different take on that from most of what is written today.
That book had 2 oveseas editions and was a book club selection.
Any counsel for the not yet senile elderly writer?
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GMartin [07.14.06 05:35 AM]
Tim, when is O'Reilly going to take this approach? Free online, print if you'd like?
\\Greg