Abstract:Whereas book reviews in mainstream media outlets reach huge audiences, and their effects are obvious, the effects of reviews in scholarly outlets—and therefore the reason publishers do the work to land them—are harder to quantify. Yet scholarly book reviews play an important role in the long-term perception of a scholarly work and in the larger ecology of scholarship. This essay explains a bit about how scholarly book reviews work and why publishers believe they are valuable.

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那么，如果不是纽约时报呢：为什么一家大学出版社在学术期刊上寻求书评

摘要：尽管主流媒体的书评能够覆盖大量受众，而且其影响是显而易见的，但学术媒体中的书评的影响——因此也是出版商努力实现它们的原因——更难量化。然而，学术书评在学术工作的长期认知和更大的学术生态中发挥着重要作用。这篇文章解释了一些关于学术书评的工作原理以及为什么出版商认为它们很有价值。