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CUP typically requires 3 unanimous reviews.
Cambridge University Press
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Certainly not always
Posted 2 years ago # -
CUP does not always require 3 reviews. They will often make a decision with two reviews if (1) both are glowing or (2) one or both is clearly negative.
My experience: 5 months from first contact to a decision by the syndics
Posted 2 years ago # -
This thread is filled with misinformation that is probably deliberate.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I know they will also publish with at least one negative review
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^ and ^^^: As I think with any press, whether to go to the board with 2 positive and 1 negative is the editor's prerogative. I suspect it depends in part on the person's reputation. Since my book was my first, I didn't necessarily have the rep to outweigh the negative review. Generally if you do have a negative review and the press decides to go ahead anyway, you will be asked to write a letter to the board that responds to the reviews.
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OP whats ur point? its a top press
who caresOUP and CUP are the best 2 overall hands down
Posted 2 years ago # -
3 positive reviews, but the editor had to go to the board with a 30-page single-spaced response to get a conditional contract
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So basically, he had to write a long article to get you a book contract?
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no, i had to write the response to the 3 reviews.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Does the series that publishes the book matter when it comes to tenure time? Or is it just the quality of the press that matters? Thanks..
Posted 9 months ago # -
Lots of subjectivity. Ask around your dept and try to get as many people as possible buying into your case as possible. Anything (well maybe almost anything) can be spun positively or negatively.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Everyone I've talked to in the top-twenty circuit thinks being in a series is good. It requires that your book pass an additional layer of scrutiny and puts it in a slightly more prestigious group. I can't see this every being spun negatively. Now, if you have a choice of series, congratulations! Usually your book only fits one or two, so this is unusual. Then I'd guess go with whichever series people in your department and/or likely tenure-letter writers are going to view as more prestigious. If you look at the editors and the recent books published in the series that should be a pretty good indication.
Posted 9 months ago # -
^ the negative spin would come if the series editor was your advisor or otherwise in your professional network. Some series are pretty incestuous. That isn't to say that this doesn't sometimes happen in the regular process too, but in a series it's more obvious since the names are all right there in the front of the book.
Posted 9 months ago # -
and I've heard senior people in my dept claim that book series were suspicious because they were even clubbier than the usual peer-review process for books. I didn't agree with their logic, but my book isn't in a series so it didn't matter.
At the end of the day I wouldn't worry too much about this. Most people don't have tons of book contract offers with top presses. Take the best offer you can get and you'll be fine.
But the larger point about tenure remains, if you're worried then there's no substitute for talking widely with senior profs in your dept, building a broad-based coalition, and being prepared for the unexpected!
Posted 9 months ago # -
Now I understand why PSJR is such high quality; most people have published with CUP. You guys rock!
Posted 9 months ago #