{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Retirement special: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3236,"description":"Douglas Armato, the fifth director in the University of Minnesota Press's 100-year history, will soon retire after 27 years of leadership at the Press—following an almost-50-year career in book publishing. On the occasion of this milestone event, he unites several titans of university publishing in a tremendous conversation about change and comradeship, past progress and future speculation, and persistent through it all, an abiding passion for what is at the core of this work: books. Gathered with Armato are Lisa Bayer, director of University of Georgia Press; Greg Britton, editorial director at Johns Hopkins University Press; Jennifer Crewe, associate provost and director of Columbia University Press; and Dean Smith, director of Duke University Press; in a conversation moderated by Bill Germano, professor of English at Cooper Union. Access a transcript of this conversation: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92More about Armato's acquisitions, collaborations, and retirement news: z.umn.edu/DA27.More about the Press's 100-year history and influence: z.umn.edu/wordfactory100.This is a University of Minnesota Press production. Thank you for listening.Episode chapters:02:30: What has scholarly publishing gained, and what has it lost, since we started in the business?05:08: Side hustles to sustain the bottom line.10:02: Are university presses and university libraries still close allies?17:52: How is the outside world meant to understand what a university press does?22:45: It's a job for hopeless romantics willing to fall in love with ideas (and not necessarily ones you even like).28:40: Whither AI? How is the AI tsunami different from or similar to past massive paradigm changes for publishing, such as the Internet and e-books?35:22: In a world of e-books, does a book need to go out of print? Should books go out of print?41:00: What is the ideal role for scholarly publishers with regard to tenure decisions?48:24: Memories and anecdotes about working with Doug Armato.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}