From: Alex Holzman <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:13:45 -0500 Well, since Sandy asked, no, I haven't really noticed any change. Always amazing how I can place some manuscripts with minimal effort while others require up to a dozen contacts before it's placed with the necessary two or three reviewers. But I attribute that more to random chance than the subject matter of individual mss. and overall, nope, no real change in overall percentage of yes'es. BTW, it's customary--at least for university presses--to pay an honorarium for reading a book-length mss. Reviewer decides whether to be paid in cash or in books (the latter often twice as much in dollar equivalents). I wouldn't argue we pay a lot, but we don't ask our readers to provide entirely free labor. Alex Holzman Director Temple University Press Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.temple.edu/tempress On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:13 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:09:31 -0600 > > If this is a problem for journal editors, wouldn't you suppose it > would be even more of a problem for editors at scholarly book > publishers trying to get reviews on much longer manuscripts? Yet, in > my experience of more than 40 years as an acquiring editor (which is > current today as i continue to acquire part-time in political science > for two academic presses), I have not noticed any significant increase > in the difficulty of obtaining reviewers for books. I wonder if that > is the experience of other university press editors who may be tuned > into this listserv (such as Alex Holzman)? >