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Introduction Academic publishing has long relied on a narrative of stability and intellectual control. Editors read manuscripts, reviewers evaluate them, and decisions emerge from human judgment shaped by disciplinary expertise and scholarly norms. It is a system that presents itself as careful, deliberate, and grounded in reasoned evaluation. For decades, this framing has been repeated … Read more

Introduction Walk into a modern publishing company and the change is immediately noticeable. Editors still debate manuscripts. Peer review still happens. Books and journal articles are still produced. Yet behind the scenes, the operational machinery increasingly resembles something closer to a software company than a traditional publishing house. Large publishing organizations now run digital platforms, … Read more

Introduction For most of the history of publishing, the hierarchy of value seemed obvious. Content came first. Everything else existed to support it. Authors created manuscripts, editors refined them, publishers packaged them, and distributors delivered them to readers. The better the content, the stronger the publishing program. That logic worked reasonably well during the print … Read more

Introduction The print monograph has been declared dead so many times that it deserves a loyalty card. Ten obituaries, and the next funeral is free. Every few years someone surveys declining print runs, strained library budgets, expanding journal bundles, and the glow of screens in every lecture hall, then announces with solemn certainty that the … Read more