id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_stg4ik5i6jb35akrgi5jctnzzi Nancy Maron The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Toward a Transparent Methodology 2016.0 52 .pdf application/pdf 17710 1099 63 the costs of publishing a scholarly monograph, this study is unique in that we worked with an advisory group of university press publishers to identify all of the cost publishing, and developing cost estimates for staff and non-staff expenses in core press activities of book publishing among twenty presses, we were able to examine the staff 2 While these averages provide a good sense of the range of costs involved in publishing, note that individual presses will Studying the costs of publishing nearly 400 monographs across 20 university presses,  Regardless of group type, the largest cost item for university presses is staff time, press carries the cost of legal staff; another counts its digital division as overhead in monograph publishing, since its staff up across the press, resulting in a total cost for staff time on a specific title. Time spent on "books never published" is calculated by pooling costs at the press level, ./cache/work_stg4ik5i6jb35akrgi5jctnzzi.pdf ./txt/work_stg4ik5i6jb35akrgi5jctnzzi.txt