12-17-2013, 08:20 PM
Well, gentlemen, I shall still purchase it, in spite of the passage of time since your contributions were scripted. Does this mean they need to start work on the second edition.
This does seem to be symptomatic of a wider malaise in academic publishing. Wiley-Blackwell also publish, for example, the excellent (apart from the delays) "Blackwell History of the Ancient World", but for something which is basically supposed to be a textbook, is it not absurd that intervals between volumes are sometime longer than undergraduate degrees? And why are they on edition 2 of the Classical and Archaic Greece volumes (and the Byzantine volume) while we are still awaiting the initial appearance of the volumes on the Roman Republic and the earlier Roman Empire?
No wonder Osprey and Pen & Sword do well - the customer does not die of old age waiting for the product to appear!
This does seem to be symptomatic of a wider malaise in academic publishing. Wiley-Blackwell also publish, for example, the excellent (apart from the delays) "Blackwell History of the Ancient World", but for something which is basically supposed to be a textbook, is it not absurd that intervals between volumes are sometime longer than undergraduate degrees? And why are they on edition 2 of the Classical and Archaic Greece volumes (and the Byzantine volume) while we are still awaiting the initial appearance of the volumes on the Roman Republic and the earlier Roman Empire?
No wonder Osprey and Pen & Sword do well - the customer does not die of old age waiting for the product to appear!
