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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: NBN Classic: Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Description: This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that most of them are what you might called "fundamental research." Their authors--dedicated researchers one and all--provide the scholarly stuff upon which many non-fiction trade books are based. So when you are reading, say, a popular history, you are often reading UP books at one remove. Of...