The State of the University Press
But even the largest of university presses need healthy income to survive. And although Sherer generally agrees with the theory that the paywall is academia's biggest barrier to disseminating scholarship, when it comes down to it, he's in the business of selling books.
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Broadly speaking the innovations happening across the university press space today -- and for that matter, the struggles those presses are attempting to work through -- closely mirror the conversations taking place in the publishing industry at large.
Dan Eldridge is a journalist and guidebook author based in Philadelphia's historic Old City district, where he and his partner own and operate Kaya Aerial Yoga, the city's only aerial yoga studio. A longtime cultural reporter, Eldridge also writes about small business and entrepreneurship, travel, and the publishing industry. Follow him on Twitter at @YoungPioneers.
