About Humanities E-Books LLP

In 2006, a well-known romantic literature scholar, Dr. Richard Gravil, founded Humanities E-Books. The vision was for a new type of cooperative scholarly and educational publishing that uses current technology to give authors a better and fairer return on their work, affordable book readers, and reducing environmental impact through e-books rather than printed copies.

I have been fortunate to be involved with Humanities E-Books since its inception. Throughout the years, the vision and values ​​have remained the same and equally important. If anything, they are even more relevant now than then. We remain equally committed to using new technologies, including advances in artificial intelligence, to pioneer new methods of making our titles accessible to the widest possible audience. If you share this vision and values, come join us as an author, editor or reader. Developers interested in applying new technologies to publishing production, licensing and distribution are also welcome.

We will be delighted to hear from you!

Professor Mark Addis
Managing Director of Humanities E-books LLP

Our Philosophy

Humanities E-Books is an academic cooperative based on three values: most of the price of an academic book belongs to the author or publisher Academic and educational publications do not have to be expensive in terms of price or resource consumption. Ezine can match the best of traditional print in its elegance. Our books are: high quality well designed and elegant produced to meet the highest accessibility standards available in various electronic formats and as print on demand published quickly (two months from final submission to publication) easy to use on desktops, laptops and mobile devices affordable for students, individual scholars, and smaller libraries available to libraries around the world through our library aggregators aimed at a wide audience, citation and impact Humanities E-Books was founded and continues to be led by practicing scholars who have an understanding of scholarly and educational publishing from the perspective of participating in it. In that sense we are our authors and that shapes everything we do.

Remuneration

Humanities E-Books contracts ensure that author and editor royalties are directly linked to the sales of their titles and the number of titles published with us. Contracts ensure that the greater the turnover on a title or titles results in a higher level of royalties. Authors receive a minimum percentage of net receipts of the sale price which is significantly higher than the publishing industry average. 

What we Publish

Monographs, Editions and Collections

We publish original peer-reviewed studies, editions, and unified collections (e.g. a lifetime's collection of essays on a single author) at a competitive price, designed to appeal both to libraries and to scholars who now find printed books prohibitive. We also publish 'reprints' of sought-after editions, monographs and collections (usually, but not necessarily, revised) in which copyright has formally reverted to the author (we use 'monographs' in the broad sense of the term, i.e. studies of a unified topic by a single hand.) Recent contracts will usually preclude such action unless you or your agent insisted on amending the standard contract. But you may still have the right to request a new edition, and to take it elsewhere if the original publisher declines.

Monograph Series

Each series of Humanities-Ebooks monographs will make a contribution to scholarship in a particular field of research, as defined by the General Editor(s), and will be edited to the highest standards. It will be the aim of the publisher and of the editors jointly to ensure that the monographs achieve a standing equivalent to the products of conventional publishing houses, while offering considerable advantages in terms of affordability, availability, searchability, and portability.

Contemporary American Literature

General Editors:
Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee, UK)
Chris Gair (University of Glasgow, UK)

The editors invite proposals for e-book monographs to be included in a new series of approaches to American literature since 1970. Proposals may include:

• Genre or theme-based studies of contemporary American writing (e.g. immigration and/or emigration narratives, new journalism, neo-slave narratives, travel writing, the short story, crime fiction, science fiction and fantasy writing)

• Theoretical studies of contemporary American literature (e.g. approaches based on gender studies, circum-Atlanticism, environmentalism, postmodernism, race, ethnicity, class)

• Critical studies of significant novelists, poets, dramatists, and other artists in relation to contemporary American culture

Proposals, should be made simultaneously to: a.varvogli@dundee.ac.uk and c.gair@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk

Genre Fiction Monographs

Genre Fiction Monographs is open to proposals for scholarly or critical work, at extended essay (c. 12,000 to 25,000 words) or book length, on the authors and works covered by Genre Fiction Sightlines.

Volumes of essays, whether monographic or edited, may be proposed. Proposals on crime, science fiction and children's writing will be particularly welcome, but the listing is not exclusive. Studies of the collisions between crime, SF, and children's writing are also strongly invited.