Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink
Source: roanoke.com Posted By: Ronny F...5422 days ago
Chancellor Michael Martin doesn't question the prestige the Louisiana State University Press brings to his school, with Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction and poetry, tomes on Southern history and culture and other noted works to its credit.
What it doesn't bring in is revenue, and like cash-strapped colleges across the country, LSU is getting tired of propping up its press.
The school has said the 74-year-old original publisher of "A Confederacy of Dunces" doesn't generate enough money to independently....