In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: How much weight does publishing a booklet (max 30.000 words) in the Cambridge University Press Elements series carry? Is it like publishing an article in a good/top journal or more like a monograph with CUP or something else? I am junior scholar, working…

In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: This may be a unique question, but I'm thinking of writing a book on a topic that I haven't published on extensively as an academic philosopher. (In short, the topic is much more applied, and in an area in which I used…

In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: How prestigious are presses like Bloomsbury, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington, etc. compared to university presses? On the one hand, I have sometimes heard people in the humanities say university presses are the "gold standard" for academics in terms of hiring and…

A reader wrote in by email asking "whether it’s fine to submit a book proposal, or manuscript, to multiple publishers at once?" I wrote the following here back in 2015: 4. Is it acceptable to send out proposals to multiple presses at the same time? Is it a good idea? I know Leiter had a…