Scholarly publishing is full of norms and conventions that are taken for granted by those who know the ropes and are simultaneously largely unknown to emerging scholars. For instance, many authors don’t know that they can submit a scholarly book proposal to multiple presses at the same time. Perhaps the misconception that you can only submit to one publisher at a time comes from authors’ experience with journals, where it is indeed unethical to submit the same paper to multiple journals simultaneously. But book publishing works differently; scholarly publishers recognize that they may have to compete for an appealing project or author, and thus authors can hang onto a little tiny bit of power and self-determination in this situation.
On Simultaneous Submissions
On Simultaneous Submissions
On Simultaneous Submissions
Scholarly publishing is full of norms and conventions that are taken for granted by those who know the ropes and are simultaneously largely unknown to emerging scholars. For instance, many authors don’t know that they can submit a scholarly book proposal to multiple presses at the same time. Perhaps the misconception that you can only submit to one publisher at a time comes from authors’ experience with journals, where it is indeed unethical to submit the same paper to multiple journals simultaneously. But book publishing works differently; scholarly publishers recognize that they may have to compete for an appealing project or author, and thus authors can hang onto a little tiny bit of power and self-determination in this situation.