Summary
Originally in the business of printing dissertations and other monographs purchased almost exclusively by research libraries, university presses now are being driven by a variety of forces to expand their presence in the fiercely competitive trade-publishing world inhabited by the huge New York houses as well as numerous regional and local publishers.
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Pressed Into Action
Not long after Melinda Wirkus made her way to Kentucky from New York City, with a stopover in Kansas, she attended the Woodland Art Fair in Lexington and met one of this state's most renowned photographers, James Archambeault. It was August 2004 and Wirkus, the recently hired director of editing, design and production for the University Press of Kentucky, had a question for him that no one else at the state's only university press had thought to ask. Why, she wanted to know, wasn't UK's pre...
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