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In our most recent “how can we help you?” thread, a couple of readers posed book publishing. The first reader writes:
How do I choose between sending my book to OUP NY and OUP Oxford?
And the second writes:
Does uploading my dissertation to PhilPapers hurt my chances of getting it published as a book later?
Do readers have any helpful insights to share?
To the second query
.. why would a publisher want to publish a manuscript that is already available on line
Many dissertations are now published online by universities (e.g. on ProQuest or those institutions’ own platforms), and doing so is required in order to graduate. That would seem to rule out any book substantially based on a dissertation awarded by such an institution ever being published. It seems more reasonable to say that dissertations don’t count as prior publication in a substantial way, just as it’s perfectly acceptable to publish papers that start life as chapters of one’s dissertation.
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