Thread by @tsmullaney

ICYMI, @KQEDForum dedicated a half-hour segment to the @stanfordpress crisis. Please listen (23 minutes total). This is important stuff that directly affects you, your community, your world. Future Uncertain for Stanford University Press kqed.org/forum/20101018…

If you are REALLY too busy (p.s., you're not!), here are some highlights...

"[T]he country is facing a KNOWLEDGE COLLAPSE, and university presses along with libraries have been kind of the barricades against that knowledge collapse." - Tom (caller) kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"I’m shocked that Stanford, for the cost of a rounding error in its endowment, would contribute to this knowledge collapse." - Tom (caller) kqed.org/forum/20101018…

Given "all the eloquent things that have been said in support of Stanford press," a caller remaks: "[I]t's interesting that the [Stanford] administration has had absolutely nothing to say in response. They’ve been largely silent." - Bruce (caller) kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"Especially in this climate... it looks like it’s almost politically motivated to end [Stanford University Press]." - Susan (caller) kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"The implicit idea that a university press should make money is the idea that we should all be writing books like Malcolm Gladwell or Margot Shetterly or @harari_yuval or Jared Diamond."-@tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"[I]f you scratch at the surface of a non-fiction bestseller, what you'll see is that...it is built upon the work of others published on university presses, that sell in the 100s, maybe in the 1000s, but certainly not in the tens of thousands." @tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"[T]his is going to have relevance across the academic world and in fact, the Republican governor of Kentucky has said, university presses really are unnecessary. There’s a big debate going on here." -Michael Krasny @KQEDForum kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"We're not satisfied with this stay of execution, this one-year [funding] reprieve. We want to see @stanfordpress on stable footing, in perpetuity." - @tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

University Press are essential our "literary culture." "[U]niversity presses give a chance to writers who would not otherwise be published: Short story writers, novelists..." - Bruce (caller) kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"Supporters of @stanfordpress say it is central to Stanford's academic mission and they fear that the University is trying to shut it down." - Michael Krasny @KQEDForum kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"@stanfordpress has been systematically underfunded by Stanford University for a very, very long time." - @tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"It’s worth noting that @stanfordpress has been a leader in digital publication. This is not a case of a press that hasn’t done innovative things."- @ScottJaschik kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"Peer-review is the gatekeeper of all knowledge production in our society. And here’s a wake-up call: peer-review is run exclusively by university presses and by journals." - @tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"If we do anything to weaken or destroy this ecosystem of university presses, we will have no checks on the quality or rigor of knowledge. We will be living in a totally, entirely, 'post-truth' environment." - @tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"Another area of strength for [SUP] is business. They publish scholarly books about the economic downturn, about start-up companies, serious scholarly books..." -@ScottJaschik kqed.org/forum/20101018…

"I’ve never seen outrage like this in my 13 years at Stafford, never." - @tsmullaney kqed.org/forum/20101018…

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