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ACADEMIC, EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
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PICTURED EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS C.E.O. NICOLA RAMSEY
his is the inaugural British Book Award for Edinburgh University Press, the academic stalwart which has been trading for over
seven decades. Several years of modernisation and digital
investment culminated in 2022 with record sales, despite another year of policy and budgetary pressures across the academic sector and a post- Covid paring down of its publishing programme. Highlights included best-ever revenue from e-books following a new partnership with De Gruyter. Internationally, North America was the best-performing territory—the result of sustained efforts on local commissioning. In print, revenues bucked the general downward trend with stability. Beyond its academic communities, the press raised its profile in trade channels, with David Alston’s Slaves and Highlanders named Book of the Year at Scotland’s National Book Awards and becoming its biggest-selling title of 2022.
53 The British Book Awards judges liked EUP’s
strong collaboration with publishing partners and institutions, its smart long-term investment in business systems and analytics, and the way it responded nimbly to fill gaps in its academic fields. “They consistently make sensible invest- ment and publishing decisions.” The judges also admired EUP’s diversity and
inclusion initiatives, including an overhaul of recruitment practices, a mentoring scheme and sessions on neurodiversity. It made strides on reducing its environmental impact by developing a Sustainability Plan and took excellent care of its teams and authors. “This was my best publishing experience ever—perfect from start to finish,” said one grateful academic. Judges echoed the admiration of this long-
standing but thoroughly modern academic publisher. “There is a clear and genuine commit- ment to its ethos and the wellbeing of its staff.”
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