Dear Reader,
Does any initiative better summarize the
way technology is reshaping the
relationship between author, publisher,
and reader than the proliferation of
publishers’ blogs such as the one
Rowman & Littlefield proudly launches
today? For years, publishers worked in
isolation from their readers,
interacting only through sales
figures, print reviews, and, (the
only time we came face to face
with our audience) at academic
meetings. Now, the veil has been
lifted, whether in reader responses
posted on the websites of online
booksellers, on listservs, or through
the sustained conversation that we
invite you to join.
This forum will allow authors and
readers to enter into direct dialogue
on issues spanning the breadth of our
publishing program, from teaching to
scholarship to policymaking, from
ancient history to current affairs.
It will enhance our published books
and generate ideas for new ones.
It may even offer those of us in the
publishing business an opportunity to
convey a sense of our evolving role in
the rich and invigorating intellectual
arena as communication and the
interchange of information, analysis,
and opinion evolve ever-more rapidly.
Welcome.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Sisk
Publisher
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