Episode 11: Jennifer Crewe

Who’s responsible for the promulgation of human knowledge? If you answered Wikipedia, think again. Our guest this week is Jennifer Crewe, director of Columbia University Press, and immediate past president of the 150-member Association of University Presses. The first woman director of an Ivy League university press, she reveals the business model of academic publishing, trends in book-buying during the pandemic, the politics of subsidizing the public face of research, digital platforms, and much else