The Problem of Fit in Scholarly Publishing: Ideas on Fire Publishing Series

Description

What does it mean for a scholarly project to be a good “fit”—and who gets to decide?

Fit shapes scholarly publishing at every stage, from choosing where to submit a book or article to editorial acquisitions and peer review. But fit is more complicated than simply matching a manuscript’s topic to a press, series, or journal. It can encompass audience, methodology, disciplinary conversations, institutional priorities, market considerations, and assumptions about what kinds of scholarship belong where.

Join Ideas on Fire and a panel of scholarly publishing professionals for a critical conversation about how fit works in practice, where the concept can be useful, and where it can reproduce disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

For professional editors, this free session offers a deeper understanding of the publishing decisions surrounding the manuscripts they edit and useful context for helping authors think strategically about audience, positioning, and potential publication venues without reducing distinctive interdisciplinary projects to conventional categories.

Speakers:

- Kerry Webb, Senior Acquisitions Editor, University of Texas Press

- Alyssa Napier, Acquisitions Editor, Columbia University Press

- Alison Syring, Senior Acquisitions Editor, University of Illinois Press

- Cathy Hannabach, CEO, Ideas on Fire

Part of the Ideas on Fire Publishing Series

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