One Book/Five Ways
Association of American University Presses / Kachergis, Joyce
A testament to the ingenuity of scholarly presses, "One Book/Five Ways is a fascinating experiment in comparative publishing. This book records the history of a single manuscript, entitled "No Time for Houseplants, submitted to five different university presses--Chicago, MIT, North Carolina, Texas, and Toronto--and then actually published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Each of the five model publishers agreed to treat the book as a real ...