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Wealthier university presses could afford to diversify more effectively, and supply a variety of books rather than a glut of tho
Wealthier university presses could afford to diversify more effectively, and supply a variety of books rather than a glut of tho
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2015-02-12
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Wealthier university presses could afford to diversify more effectively, and supply a variety of books rather than a glut of those that just make money. The business of university publishing had entered into dangerous arithmetic. Production grew almost four times faster than the market. The total output of all university presses was 31 million books. After deducting the 5 million books bought by libraries, each and every one of the million faculty members in academe in the U.S. would need to buy 26 university-press books a year to reach market equilibrium.
There remains today a stubborn, widespread fantasy that libraries will buy enough copies of a book to pay for the cost of producing it. True, once upon a time, a university press could expect to sell about 1,500 copies of a typical monograph, with 800 to 1,000 of those sales to academic libraries. But by 1990, the number for library sales had dropped to 500 or 600. Currently, it is common to hear 200, and not unusual to hear still lower numbers.
How did university presses move so far into the trade marketplace, ever further than their universities? Library budgets shifted dramatically toward science and technology journals and large expensive databases, so they had less and less money for books. As one market diminished, another had to be found. University administrators came to assume that a university press could pay for books that lose money by publishing books that make money. Academic authors made marketing a more important reason for choosing a press than refereeing, editing, or proofreading.
The situation is sad and needs to be addressed in a healthy academic debate about the ethics of commercial publishing.
When the author says university publishing has entered into dangerous arithmetic(lines 2-3, para. 1)he means______.
选项
A、publishers are losing money
B、publishers have underestimated their problems
C、publishing is not reflecting market demand
D、publishing is overproducing due to bad estimates of sales
答案
C
解析
属信息归纳题。从第一段的数字列举可以看出,书籍的产量供过于求,出版并没有反映市场需求。
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考研英语一
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