Guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Guest post by Alison Syring, acquisitions editor at University of Illinois Press
I can’t count how many times I’ve heard that publishing, and acquisitions in particular, is an apprenticeship industry. I’ve heard it from colleagues, on Zoom calls, in books, and from my own mouth. In Peter Ginna’s What Editors Do, he writes, “Training for most publishing jobs, certainly those in editorial positions, is in effect a classic apprenticeship system where junior people learn on the job by working as assistants to more