From: Michael Magoulias <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:10:30 +0000 Hi Ann Regarding the assumptions below here are some general answers: 1. STM is predominantly journal-focused, but plenty of societies do a small number of books as well. As with everything in this area, things are very discipline specific. I know that some book publishing is part of many medical societies, for example. 2. This is correct, though the book publishing aspect is not as large as it used to be. Societies tend to find external publishing partners for these as well as their journals. 3. They outsource when they can both to commercial firms and university presses. Every situation is different -- sometimes it makes sense for the same press to do the books and the journals, sometimes these go to different presses. There are always economic and peer review considerations that can make the book publishing program unattractive for publishers. If a society has an ongoing series, for example, in which the quality of some volumes is in question, a press may feel that it can't commit in advance to publishing every future volume in the series. Also worth remembering that there are some societies that still self-publish, though this group shrinks every year. To my knowledge, there haven't been many, if any, cases of a society that has gone back to self-publishing after moving to an established press. Hope this helps, Michael Magoulias University of Chicago Press Sent from my iPad > On Jan 13, 2016, at 5:38 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:40:46 -0500 > > Hello, liblicense-l colleagues. Here some assumptions arising several > times at ALA-Boston last week. I realized I don't have enough depth > to validate them (or not). > > 1. Assumption: STM societies don’t publish many (if any?)They > books, mostly journals. > > 2. Assumption: HSS societies do publish books/monographs, as > well as journals. > > 3. Assumption: Societies (both STM and HSS) don’t outsource > book publishing to commercial publishers the way they do journals > because there isn’t a big enough margin in it for publishers to want > to do it. > > Any insights would be greatly appreciated! > > Best regards, Ann Okerson