From Publisher\’s Weekly:
To say publishing has changed since the attacks is to downplay the transformation of the world we now inhabit–a place where Costco orders from Yale University Press, where the director of Rutgers UP finds packs of editors at Frankfurt clamoring for her attention, where Princeton can say with no exaggeration that a book titled The Paradox of Patriotism is selling briskly.
These are heady times for university presses, who, after a decade of trying to move into the trade, have now found the trade, rather suddenly, moving to them. Yale\’s Taliban by Ahmed Rashid has landed on the Times bestseller list with six-figure sales numbers more appropriate to The Rock, while authors like Princeton\’s Bruce Lawrence (Shattering the Myth) have made somewhere in the neighborhood of eighty media appearances . . .
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