From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:46:22 -0500

The AAUP, as I mentioned in another message, surveys its members
annually and produces a very thorough set of operating statistics. So
the information exists for university presses. Alas, there appears to
be nothing comparable for commercial publishers, so the comparison you
ask for cannot be undertaken.

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:52:55 -0700
>
> Sandy, I meant the "quality of paper" control. And I fully subscribe
> under concerns of leaving the process of publishing within University
> borders expressed by Rick and Anthony in another thread.
>
> But I think our discussion must be resolved by statistics.
>
> Do you have all that necessary for computation: number of University
> presses, their capacities vs. the same from publishers.
>
> (Of course distribution of facilities must be close to normal
> distribution or Pareto law but this must be proved not assumed).
>
> We can make a comparison with numbers - then the "rises and falls" of
> the Finch report will be more pronounced.
>
> Ari Belenkiy
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:33 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 22:51:24 -0500
>>
>>  Ari, as you will see, Chicago distributes for a substantial number of
>>  other publishers: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cdc/publishers.html.
>>  So do the other presses I mentioned.
>>
>>  I'm not sure what you mean by asking about "quality control." All
>>  university presses are mandated to have quality control procedures in
>
>  > place for their operations. That is what makes them university
>  > presses.
>  >
>  > Sandy Thatcher