A quick post to point readers to a great article, A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, by the wonderful Peter Dougherty of Princeton University Press. He writes:

“….[B]ooks remain the most effective technology for organizing and
presenting sustained arguments at a relatively general level of
discourse and in familiar rhetorical forms — narrative, thematic,
philosophical, and polemical — thereby helping to enrich and unify
otherwise disparate intellectual conversations.”

Hear, hear. Anyone interested in serious thought should read this – as should all publishers of serious books.