Academic publishing: nouvelle, fusion, and more to come

Count on Richard Charkin to put together the team to do something new in publishing–and to surprise us not only with the ingredients but with the menu itself. Academic publishing at Bloomsbury? Not so strange, after thinking about it. Richard knows academic publishing and just how successful a business it can be (and that he can make it). And Bloomsbury itself isn’t the cultural disconnect I first reckoned. The University of London and the British Library are in Bloomsbury, after all. (Bloomsbury the press, however, is not, having moved, I guess, to less tweedy surrounds on Soho Square.) Take a look at plans for Bloomsbury Academic.

By Karen Christensen|2008-09-08T08:04:31-04:00September 8th, 2008|Uncategorized|0 Comments

About the Author: Karen Christensen

Karen Christensen is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and occasional scholar who also writes about how women gain and wield power. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, a research associate of the Fairbank Center at Harvard, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and founder of the Train Campaign. She was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Press, Read Karen’s occasional dispatches from the frontlines of international publishing at Karen's Letter on Substack, and follow her on Twitter etc @karenchristenze.