Why Publish with mediastudies.press

We are media scholars like you, with an academy-first vision for the future of publishing, a growing list of titles, and four book series dedicated to the field. We are nonprofit and fee-free by principle. We are committed to bibliodiversity and to scaling small—with five books a year selected for their scholarly promise, rather than their projected sales. If these values and commitments match your own, please consider publishing with us

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• open access: all our works are freely available on the open web, under author-selected licenses

• nonprofit: we are proudly nonprofit and mission-driven, in conscious contrast to the prevailing oligopoly

• scholar-led: we are run by academics in the field, with the aim to spread research among scholars and to the public 

• no author fees: partnerships with libraries and other funders, rather than author fees, cover our modest costs—so inability to pay is no barrier

• discoverabity: we publish in four formats (html, PDF, ePub, and paperback), across seven platforms (Project MUSE, Internet Archive, OAPEN, Google Books, Apple Books, and Amazon) and all the major library-directory listings and Google Scholar

• professionalism: we follow all the best practices in scholarly publishing, including chapter-level metadata, Library of Congress and WorldCat indexing, and all the latest registration standards (including DOIs, ISBNs, and OCLC cataloguing)

• informed publicity: we know the media studies fields, and issue personalized appeals to relevant listservs, journal book review editors, the New Books Network—and we host a panel of relevant scholars for a remote book-launch event for every book we publish

• multi-modal: we support (and encourage) video, audio, image, and interactive elements, in line with the fields’ multiple objects of study

• artisanal editing: we personally edit every manuscript with the expertise that only a fellow scholar can provide

• high-quality copy editing: we provide unusually excellent copy editing, paying a fair rate to our carefully chosen, U.S.-based copy editors

• developmental peer review: we employ a care-based peer review model, with options for open and signed review upon request

• author pages: we provide authors with monthly updates on downloads, sales, and readership across our distribution platforms

• versioning: we make it easy for authors to release iterative, citable updates—a nod to the kinetic worlds that media scholars study

• transparency: we are committed to openness in our operations, with all of our workflows and finances shared openly