Over at the Chronicle, they’ve commissioned an article from Princeton University Press director Peter Dougherty on the future of scholarly publishing and he makes several key recommendations for how UPs can not only survive, but thrive and build on our existing strengths and niche markets.

• Include on our lists more titles from the burgeoning professional disciplines: engineering, law, medicine, architecture, business, the graphic arts, and the information sciences.
• Become much more purposeful and assertive in publishing books that define whole fields, including important advanced textbooks.
• Publish more books for worldwide readerships.
• Work more closely with departments and centers within our host universities to adapt their work — sponsored lecture series, etc. — into books, monograph series, and other such initiatives.

Read the complete article here.