Who am I? :
Who am I?
Stanford University Press :
Stanford University Press 115 years old
Department of the Library
165 new titles each year
Mixture of humanities and social sciences
No journals…
Stanford University Press :
Stanford University Press Traditional workflow
Stanford University Press :
Stanford University Press Traditional workflow
Mix of in-house and freelance production
Non-technical author base
Established Outlets :
Established Outlets E-book aggregators
NetLibrary
ebrary
Questia
….
Google
Amazon
All PDF :
All PDF
Reasons :
Reasons Authors
Staff
Resources
Lack of outlets
Slide 10:
When needed, we can
back-end convert.
Slide 11:
XML is great for a large corpus
Most UPs don’t have a large corpus
Research has shown advanced H&SS readership is more comfortable with PDF
But :
But
Slide 13:
Apple
Sony
Barnes & Noble
Google
..and eventually
Amazon