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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T H E W E S T I N D I E S P R E S S

J ama ica B a r b a d o s Tr in idad & Tobago O p e n C a m p u s


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The University of the West

Indies Presss mission is to be

the premier scholarly book

publisher in the Caribbean, to

enhance and encourage

research and publication of

Caribbean scholarship, to

promote the global reputation

of the University of the West

Indies by empowering the

scholarly community it serves,

and to disseminate Caribbean

scholarship to the world within

a cost-effective environment.

BO A R D O F D I R E C T O R S

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair

Mr Winston Bayley, University Bursar and Director of Finance

Mr Gerry Brooks, Private Sector, Trinidad and Tobago

Mr Desmond Brunton, Caribbean Development Bank

Professor Andrew Downes, Cave Hill Representative

Mrs Valerie Facey, Private Sector, Jamaica

Mr Joseph Pereira, Mona Representative

Mrs Beverly Pereira, University Counsel

Mrs Beverly Smith-Hinkson, Private Sector, Barbados

Mr Errol Simms, St Augustine Representative

MA N U S C R I P T CO M M I T T E E

Professor Michael Dash

Professor E.J. Duncan

Professor B.W. Higman

Mr Gilbert Kodilyne

UN IV ER SI TY O F T HE W E S T I N D I E S P R E S S S TA F F

Nicola Brown, Telemarketer

Nadine Buckland, Finance Manager

Shivaun Hearne, Managing Editor

Jean Honeyghan, Publishing Assistant

Jodie McBean, Accounting Officer

Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager

Karen Smith, Marketing Assistant

Linda Speth, General Manager

Herleth Thompson, Accounting Clerk

Professor Elsie LeFranc

Professor Brian Meeks

Professor Mervyn Morris

Professor Karl Theodore

M I S S I O N

S T A T E M E N T

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C O N T E N T S

Executive Summary / 4

Books and Journals Published / 5

Conferences, Exhibits and Lectures / 13

Scholarly and Media Book Reviews / 17

Print Advertising /23

Miscellaneous Publicity and Promotion / 28

Textbook Adoptions in North America

and the Caribbean / 31

North American Library Market / 35

Sales Calls and TelemarketingActivities / 39

Awards, Honours and Industry

Recognition / 40

Book Launches / 49

Donations / 50

New Distribution Arrangements / 54

Financial Results / 56

Conclusion / 58

UWI PRESS ANNUAL REPORT 2009 3


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E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y

During 20082009, the Press published forty-seven peer-reviewed books,

journals and reprints; held the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh Editorial

Committee Meetings to adjudicate new publications; had a presence at

thirty-three international, regional and local conferences, exhibits and

lectures; published a forty-five page 2009 books-in-print catalogue,

featuring 255 books; won thirteen awards; kept the salary bill to the

University Centre current; generated a surplus; and worked assiduously to

achieve the goals of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012, particularly

by acquiring books in environmental and health studies, by contributing

to a vibrant indigenous publishing industry throughout the Caribbean, by

improving our international visibility and our global distribution

network, and by quickly confronting the global recession and its impact

on international and local book sales and taking corrective action.

After several years of double-digit growth, Press sales plummeted 67% in

the first quarter due to the deepening global recession. Management took

immediate corrective action to grow sales, cut costs and ensure that

existing obligations were and will be met. These measures ensured that

the Press ended the year with a balanced budget and a surplus.

In the report that follows, we have summarized specific Press activities

that directly support the goals of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012

tabled at the Finance and General Purposes Committee meeting in

January 2008. This provides a monitoring device and allows for clear

communication with our constituencies as we move to achieve all the

goals of the plan by 2012 despite the current recession.

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contributing to a vibrant indigenous

publishing industry throughout the Caribbean


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B O O K S A N D J O U R N A L S P U B L I S H E D

During 20082009, the Press published twelve new books, two journalsand thirty-three reprints, bringing total publications to forty-seven.

Echoes of the Haitian Revolution, 18042004, edited by Martin Munro,

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Beyond Borders: Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon, edited by

Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla

Jamaican Place Names, B.W. Higman, B.J. Hudson

The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados,

Jerome S. Handler, with a foreword by Melanie Newton

A Crime-Solving Toolkit: Forensics in the Caribbean, edited by Basil A. Reid

Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus,

Anthony Harriott

The African-Caribbean Worldview and the Making of Caribbean Society,

edited by Horace Levy

Philosophy and the West Indian Novel, Earl McKenzie

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan (850 pages)

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Expand and grow publication programme by moving from publishing 35 books

and reprints annually to publishing 45 scholarly books and reprints that contributesignificantly to furthering intellectual discourse and regional development.

Strategic Goal 1


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Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: A Historical and Institutional

Approach to Caribbean Economic Development, Lloyd Best, Kari Polanyi

Levitt

The Economics of Development in Small Countries with Special Reference to

the Caribbean, William G. Demas, with a foreword by Compton Bourne

and an introduction by Hilary McD. Beckles

Research: The Journey from Pondering to Publishing, edited by Serwan

M.J. Baban

Journal of Caribbean History 42, no. 2


The following thirty-three books and journals were reprinted by traditio-

nal means or digitized because of ongoing course demand and to ensure

sufficient stock for academics, students, wholesalers, libraries and our

new distributor in Jamaica, Kingston Bookshop, Ltd:

The University of the West Indies: A Quinquagenary Calendar, Douglas Hall

A Translation Manual for the Caribbean (EnglishSpanish), Ian Craig, Jairo

Snchez

Ethical Practice in Everyday Health Care, E.R. Walrond

Inside Jamaica Schools, Hyacinth Evans

Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari, Velma Pollard

Colonialism and Resistance in Belize: Essays in Historical Sociology,

O. Nigel Bolland

Biochemistry by Diagrams, E.Y. St A. Morrison

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Competitiveness in Small Developing Economies: Insights from the Caribbean,

Alvin Wint


Alvin Wint

Crossroads of Empire: The Europe-Caribbean Connection, 14921992, edited

by Alan Cobley

Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies,

19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith

Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus, Anthony

Harriott



Philosophy and the West Indian Novel, Earl McKenzie



Levitt

Ascent to Mona: A Short History of Jamaican Medical Care,John S.R. Golding

Commercial Arbitration in the Caribbean: A Practical Guide , Maurice Stoppi

Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in theCommonwealth Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau, Alan Cobley

Enduring Geohazards in the Caribbean: Moving from the Reactive to the

Proactive, edited by Serwan M.J. Baban

A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 16551844, Lucille Mathurin Mair,

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Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnography of an Urban Jamaican School,

Hyacinth Evans

Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, Lomarsh

Roopnarine

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan (850 pages)

The George Beckford Papers, George Beckford, edited by Kari Levitt

Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, edited by Richard Allsopp

Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery, edited by Karina

Williamson

Identity and Secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 18891980,

Learie B. Luke

The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica,

17601890, Steeve O. Buckridge

An Introduction to Politics: Lectures for First-Year Students, 3rd edition,

Trevor Munroe

From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural

Performance of Gender, Curdella Forbes



Rock It Come Over: The Folk Music of Jamaica, Olive Lewin


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In addition, the following twelve titles are in press:

Public Sector Economics, 2nd edition, Michael Howard, Althea La Foucade,

Ewan Scott

Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica, Patrick E. Bryan

Golokwati: A tidalectics history of our thymes, Kamau Brathwaite,

volume 1

Golokwati: A tidalectics history of our thymes, Kamau Brathwaite,

volume 2

Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and

Society at Risk, edited by Duncan McGregor, David Dodman,

David Barker

Cultural DNA: Gender at the Roots of Everyday Life, Diana Fox

Jamaican Theatre in the Twentieth Century,Wycliffe Bennett,

Hazel Bennett

Women in Grenadian History, Nicole Phillips

Radical Theory: Caribbean Reality: Race Class and Social Distinction,

Charles W. Mills

The New Register of Caribbean English Usage, edited by Richard Allsopp

The Fiction of Robert Antoni: Writing in the Estuary, Richard F. Patteson

Poverty and Perception in Jamaica: A Comparative Analysis of Jamaican

Households, Warren A. Benfield



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C A R I B B E A N P U B L I S H E R S N E T W O R K A N DC A R I B B E A N E X A M I N A T I O N C O U N C I L

During the year, UWI Press management spent considerable time in

supporting, sustaining and promoting the nascent book-publishingindustry in the Caribbean. Two meetings were held to revive the

Caribbean Publishers Network (CAPNET), with meetings held in Jamaica

and Barbados. The Press became a founding member of the Caribbean

Working Party, a committee designed to revitalize CAPNET, brand the

organization and become the key contact with the CXC in Barbados. The

first few tasks were to develop working documents on national book

policies, work with the other publishers in the region to review CXCsintellectual property documents, help rationalize the CXC selection

process and timetable via discussions with Dr Didacus Jules, CXC

registrar, and provide a network of information for publishers to bid on

several activities from the council, including a variety of production,

marketing, and distribution tasks and partnerships to increase access to

examinations and certification within the Caribbean and provide high-

quality resource material.

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Assume a more active role regionally and internationally in the publishing

industry.

Strategic Goal 2

The Press became a founding member of the Caribbean Working

Party, a committee designed to revitalize CAPNET, brand the

organization and become the key contact with the CXC in Barbados


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I N T E R N A T I O N A L F E D E R AT I O N O F R E P R O D U C T I O NR I G H T S O R G A N I S AT I O N S A N D J A M A I C A N

C O P Y R I G H T L I C E N S I N G A G E N C Y

Press management also attended the annual general meeting of the

International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)

in Montego Bay, Jamaica, as the designated Jamaican publishing delegate

and also supported the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency

(JAMCOPY) tenth-anniversary reception and book display at the annual

general meeting of IFRRO. More than 173 delegates from 43 countriesattended IFRRO and UWI Press was an active participant. IFRRO

meetings were also held to support the Caribbean Projects Initiative and

the development of a regional licensing agency as well as supporting the

continued development of licensing agencies in Barbados and Trinidad

and Tobago. It is only through active support of these licensing agencies

that illegal photocopying in the region will decline and revenues to rights

holders, authors and publishers, will improve.

Over the last decade the University of the West Indies Press has been a

staunch supporter and founding member of the Jamaican Copyright

Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY). In related news concerning the

maturation of an indigenous publishing and book industry, JAMCOPY, an

IFRRO member, signed a licensing agreement with the Mona campus of

the University of the West Indies, the University of Technology and the

Northern Caribbean University: After almost three years of negotiations,the islands three major universities are now in conformity with Jamaican

copyright law and international best practice. With licences in place, the

universities can now legitimately make copies of larger portions of works

within the parameters agreed with JAMCOPY. Shirley Carby, JAMCOPYs

chairwoman, pointed out that the signing of the university licences sends

a positive signal to the world of Jamaicas growing respect for intellectual



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property rights (JAMCOPY news release, July 2008). The licensing

agreement will directly benefit UWI Press and its authors with annual

monetary payments, an important source of revenue enhancement.

B O O K I N D U S T R Y A S S O C I AT I O N O F J A M A I C A

In addition the Press provided operational and funding support to the

Book Industry Association of Jamaica in hosting the judges meeting for

the tenth BIAJ Biennial Book Award Ceremony, providing logistical

support in contacting publishers for the event, paying for ads to publicize

the event, and purchasing tickets for the biennial fundraiser and award

ceremony.

Management continued to work actively within the Book Industry

Association of Jamaica to analyse the Government of Jamaicas decision to

apply GCT to non-educational printed material (books), arguing that a

tax on literacy was counterproductive to national development and that

the decision to tax non-educational printed material imposed undueadministrative hardships on small publishers and bookstores. The BIAJ

was successful in May in having the 16.5% tax on non-educational

material rolled back. This was the third time this decade that the BIAJ

successfully lobbied to roll back the GCT on books.

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C O N F E R E N C E S , E X H I B I T S , L E C T U R E S , R E V I E W S ,P R I N T A D V E R T I S I N G , S A L E S C A L L S A N DA W A R D S

During 20082009, UWI Press significantly and successfully expanded its

regional and global reach in the regional and international arenas viaexpanded exhibits programmes, launches, published reviews, print

advertising, media coverage, sales calls, telemarketing, awards, and course

adoptions. Overall, the coverage and publicity the Press garnered for its

university and its authors was the broadest and deepest in its seventeen-

year history and far exceeded the coverage most university presses its size

generate.

C O N F E R E N C E , E X H I B I T S A N D L E C T U R E S

The Press had a presence at thirty-three conferences, exhibits and lectures

in nine countries, undertook sales calls to five countries and revisited

national accounts in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in January 2009

for significant follow-up orders.

Mona Academic Conference

University of the West Indies

Jamaica

Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial Conference


Trinidad and Tobago

Highlight UWIs research internationally, regionally and nationally.

Strategic Goal 3



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Frankfurt Book Fair

The Eurospan Group Stand

GermanyEdward Baugh Distinguished Lecture Series


Jamaica

Walter Rodney Conference


Jamaica

Third Caribbean Child Research Conference

Jamaica

African Studies Association Meeting

United States

American Anthropological Association Meeting

United States

Modern Language Association Meeting

United States

Intellectual Property: Valuing Creative Assets

Jamaica

Managing Costs for Competiveness

Jamaica

International Federation of Reproduction Rights

Organisations

Jamaica

American Historical Association Meeting

United States

Society for Historical and Underwater Archaeology

Canada

Research DayUniversity of the West Indies

Jamaica

Career Day


Jamaica

Edu Nova Trade MissionJamaica

Elsa Goveia Memorial Lecture


Jamaica

Association of Caribbean Historians

Guadeloupe

Caribbean Development Bank Annual Meeting

Turks and Caicos

Grace Kennedy Lecture, Anthony Harriott

Jamaica

Caribbean Studies Association

Jamaica

Jamaica Historical Society

Jamaica

Canadian Association of Latin America and Caribbean

Studies

Canada

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Society for Caribbean Studies

England

Archaeology Society of Jamaica


Jamaica

Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic

Studies Annual Meeting


Barbados

Annual Bob Marley Lecture

Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit


Jamaica

Virginia Festival of the Book

United States

Jamaica Institute of Environmental Professionals

Fourth Conference on the Environment Climate

Change:

Caribbean Response

Jamaica

Book Industry Association of Jamaica Trade Show

Jamaica

First Caribbean Business Renewal Conference

Jamaica

Law Conference

Jamaica


UWI Press books were displayed and sold at more than thirty conferences in 2009


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UWI Press at Frankfurt Book Fair


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S C H O L A R LY A N D M E D I A B O O K R E V I E W S

Scholarly reviews in academic journals continue to be an importantmeans of disseminating scholarly information and generating sales to

academics and libraries. The Press has seen an increase in its tracked

reviews and it will continue to concentrate on emphasizing international

review coverage. With refinements in Web-based searching, we have also

been able to discover Press books reviewed in international journals that

had not been previously reported.

Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica,

edited by David Buisseret Choice, 2009 (Circulation: 35,000)

Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, Maureen Warner-Lewis

Caribbean Review of Books, May 2008 (Circulation: 500)

Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses,

edited by Rhoda E. Reddock Identities: Global Studies in Culture and

Power, November 2008

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the

Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau Identities: Global Studies in Culture

and Power, November 2008

Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Patricia

Mohammed Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, November

2008


Loopnarine Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (2008)

Caribbean Wars Untold: A Salute to the British West Indies, Humphrey

Metzgen, John Graham Caribbean Review of Books, February 2008

(Circulation: 500)


The Press has seen

an increase in its

tracked reviews

and it will continue

to concentrate

on emphasizing

international

review coverage


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Metzgen and John Graham Caribbean Beat, November/December 2008

(Circulation: 420,000)

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, edited by

Martin Munro, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Modern and Contemporary

France, August 2008

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, edited by

Martin Munro, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Small Axe 18 (2005)

Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of a Caribbean Society, edited

by Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan

Caribbean Studies 32 (2004)

Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: The Anglo-Jamaican World of Thomas

Thistlewood and His Slaves, 17501786, Trevor Burnard Journal of

Colonialism and Colonial History 6 (2005)

Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing, Arvilla Payne Jackson,

Mervyn C. Alleyne Caribbean Quarterly 53 (2007)

Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages, edited by Hazel

Simmons-McDonald, Ian Robertson Caribbean Quarterly, 53 (2007)

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman, Caribbean Review of

Books November 2008 (Circulation: 500)

Plantation Jamaica, 17501850: Capital and Control in a Colonial Economy ,

B.W. Higman New West Indian Guide, 2008

Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the

Anglo-Jamaican Word, 17501786, Trevor Burnard New West Indian

Guide, 2008

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Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas, Alvin O.

Thompson Journal of Caribbean History 42, no. 2 (2008) (Circulation:

500)

Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Bebice, Guyana, 18031831, Alvin

O. Thompson Journal of Caribbean History 42, no. 2 (2008)

(Circulation: 500)

The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taino, edited by

Lesley-Gail Atkinson Caribbean Review of Books, August 2007

(Circulation: 500)


Roopnarine Caribbean Review of Books, February 2008 (Circulation:

500)

Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence through Caribbean Discourse, Paula

Morgan, Valerie Youssef Caribbean Review of Books, November 2006

(Circulation: 500)

Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context, edited

by Franklin W. Knight, Teresita Martinez-Vergne H-Net: Humanities and

Social Sciences Online, July 2006 (Circulation: 100,000)


American Historical Review, April 2009 (Circulation: 18,000)

Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures ,Maureen Warner-Lewis Hispanic American Historical Review 85 (2005)


Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures ,

Maureen Warner-Lewis Caribbean Studies 34 (2006)


Martin Mordecai, freelance project editor, andShivaun Hearne, managing editor, discuss

substantive manuscript development


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Anglo-Jamaican Word, 17501786, Trevor Burnard H-Net: Humanities and

Social Sciences Online, April 2006 (Circulation: 100,000)


Anglo-Jamaican Word, 17501786, Trevor Burnard William and Mary

Quarterly 18 (2005) (Circulation: 3,500)

No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State

Formation, 17801870, Diana Paton H-Net: Humanities and Social

Sciences Online, May 2006 (Circulation: 100,000)

Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O., Erna Brodber Caribbean Review of Books,

November 2005 (Circulation: 500)

Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica,

Donna P. Hope Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean

Studies, January 2007 (Circulation: 400)

The Construction and Representation of Ethnicity in the Caribbean and theWorld, Mervyn C. Alleyne Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring

2005 (Circulation: 2,000)

Midlife and Older Women, Family Life, Work and Health in Jamaica,Joan

Rawlins Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, April 2007

Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, edited by Annie Paul

Sunday Gleaner, October 2008 (Circulation: 115,000)

Bricks and Stones from the Past: Jamaicas Geological Heritage , Anthony

R.D. Porter Sunday Gleaner, August 2008 (Circulation: 115,000)


Proactive, edited by Serwan M.J. Baban Sunday Gleaner,January 2009


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Archibald Monteath, Igbo, Moravian, Jamaican, by Maureen Warner-Lewis

Journal of American History, March 2009 (Circulation: 9,000)

Archibald Monteath, Igbo, Moravian, Jamaican, by Maureen Warner-Lewis

Jamaica Journal 31 (2008)

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman Transnational

Literatures, May 2009


Hispanic American Historical Review 89 (2009)

A Historical Study of Women In Jamaica, 16551844, Lucille Mathurin Mair,


H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, December 2008



Riddim Magazine, March/April 2004

A Historical Study of Women In Jamaica, 16551844, Lucille Mathurin Mair,


Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slavery and Post-Slave Societies 30

(2009)


Simmons-McDonald, Ian Robertson SHE Magazine, May/June 2009

The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taino, edited by

Lesley-Gail Atkinson Caribbean Quarterly 55 (2009)

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan Trinidad and Tobago

Express, March 22, 2009 (Circulation: 72,000)



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Express, March 29, 2009 (Circulation: 72,000)

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan C-News, March 31,2009

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan C-News, April 1,

2009

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan The Ghosts of the

Past, Stabroek News, 3 April 2009


Express, April 5, 2009 (Circulation: 72,000)


Newsday, April 30, 2009


Sunday Guardian, May 3, 2009 (Circulation: 41,000)


Trinidad and Tobago Review, May 4, 2009


Review, May 4, 2009


Sunday Guardian, May 10, 2009 (Circulation: 41,000)

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P R I N T A D V E R T I S I N G

In order to provide more visibility for the University of the West Indiesand UWI Press authors, the Press prepared an ad campaign several

months ago and the following ads appeared in the international media.

Circulation figures were provided when they were readily available.

Caribbean Review of Books, August 2008 (Circulation: 500)

Enduring Geohazards in the Caribbean: Moving from the Reactive to theProactive, edited by Serwan M.J. Baban


19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan


Williamson

Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence through Caribbean Discourse, Paula

Morgan, Valerie Youssef


Choice, August 2008 (Circulation: 35,000)



Williamson




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College and Research Libraries, September 2008 (Circulation: 13,249)


Williamson

Sunday Nation, Barbados, September 2008 (Circulation: 50,000)

Culture at the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music, Curwin Best

Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 18651966,

Keith A.P. Sandiford

Combermere School and the Barbadian Society, Keith A.P. Sandiford,

Earle H. Newton

The First West Indies Cricket Tour, edited and introduced by Hilary McD.

Beckles


Thompson

Higher Education in the Caribbean: Past, Present and Future Directions,

edited by Glenford Howe


Metzgen, John Graham

Ethical Practice in Everyday Health Care, E.R. Walrond

Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and the Poltical Leadership in the

Commonwealth Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau, Alan Cobley

UWI Cave Hill, Forty Years: A Celebration, edited by Henry Fraser,

Michael Gill, Alan Cobley, Woodville Marshall

Public Sector Economics for Developing Countries, Michael Howard

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The Economic Development of Barbados, Michael Howard

Caribbean Studies Annual Meeting Programme (Circulation: 1,500)

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman

College and Research Libraries, March 2009 (Circulation: 13,249)

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman

Environment Magazine, September 2008 (Circulation: 4,410)


Society at Risk, edited by Duncan McGregor, David Dodman, David Barker



Association of American University Presses Subject Catalogue,

Environmental Studies, September 2008 (Circulation: 7,000)


Society at Risk, edited by Duncan McGregor, David Dodman, David Barker



Resources, Planning and Environmental Management in a ChangingCaribbean, edited by David Barker, Duncan McGregor

Resource Sustainability and Caribbean Development, edited by Duncan F.M.

McGregor, David Barker, Sally Lloyd Evans

Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues for Developing Countries, edited by

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History, September 2008 (Circulation: 7,000)

Jamaican Place Names, B.W. Higman, B.J. Hudson


Thompson


Williamson

Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica, Patrick E. Bryan

The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados,

Jerome S. Handler, with a foreword by Melanie Newton


Politics of the Developing World, September 2008 (Circulation: 7,000)

A Crime-Solving Toolkit: Forensics in the Caribbean, edited by Basil E. Reid

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan

Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, Brian Meeks

Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus , Anthony

Harriott

Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in Caribbean Ministates, Patsy

Lewis

Association of American University Press Subject Catalogue, Social

and Cultural Anthropology, September 2008 (Circulation: 7,000)

Beyond Borders: Cross-culturalism and the Caribbean Canon, edited by

Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla

Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music, Curwen Best

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The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean

and the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne

Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing, Arvilla Payne-Jackson,

Mervyn C. Alleyne




Simmons-McDonald, Ian Robertson

Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean

Diaspora, Stefano Harney




Donna P. Hope

Association of American University Press Subject Catalogue,

Womens Studies, September 2008 (Circulation: 7,000)

Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in the

Commonwealth Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau, Alan Cobley

Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses,edited by Rhoda Reddock

Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by

Patricia Mohammed

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the

Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau



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M I S C E L L A N E O U S P U B L I C I T Y A N D P R O M O T I O N

Caribbean Studies Newsletter35 (2008) (Circulation: 1,100)

From Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies,

19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith Gleaner, July 30, 2008 (Circulation:

45,200)

From Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies,

19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith radio interview, October 2008

Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: An Institutional and HistoricalApproach to Caribbean Economic Development, Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi

Levitt, with a foreword by Norman Girvan Trinidad and Tobago Review,

December 6, 2008

Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: An Institutional and Historical

Approach to Caribbean Economic Development, Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi

Levitt, with a foreword by Norman Girvan Trinidad and Tobago Review,

January 12, 2009

The Economics of Development in Small Countries with Special Reference to

the Caribbean, William G. Demas, with a foreword by Compton Bourne

and an introduction by Hilary McD. Beckles Trinidad and Tobago Review,

December 6, 2008

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman BIAJ Best

Academic Book, Sunday Observer, April 11, 2009


Reference Book, Sunday Observer, April 11, 2009

Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian BIAJ Best Academic Book,

Sunday Observer, April 11, 2009

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BIAJ Best Adult Non-Fiction Book, Sunday Observer, April 11, 2009

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman BIAJ BestAcademic Book, Observer, April 29, 2009


Reference Book, Observer, April 29, 2009


BIAJ Best Academic Book, Observer, April 29, 2009


BIAJ Best Adult Non-Fiction Book, Observer, April 29, 2009

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman Australian

Association for Caribbean Studies Newsletter, April 2009

Franklin W. Knight, Early History of UWI Press, Observer, March 4,

2009

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 18681898, Ada Ferrer

AAUP Exchange, Books for Understanding, March 2009

The Trade Unions/Politics Disaster, Martin Henry, Organized Crime and

Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus, edited by Anthony Harriott

Sunday Gleaner, May 24, 2009 (Circulation: 115,000)

My Mother Who Fathered Me, second edition, Edith Clarke SundayGleaner, July 5, 2009 (Circulation: 115,000)

Hard-working Congo Man Remembers, Paul H. Williams, Central Africa

in the Caribbean: Transcending Times, Transforming Cultures, Maureen

Warner-Lewis Gleaner, May 25, 2009 (Circulation: 45,200)



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Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman Mona News,

JanuaryMarch 2009

From Depression to Decolonization: Barclays Bank (DCO) in the West Indies,19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith Mona News, JanuaryMarch 2009


Mona News, JanuaryMarch 2009

Eric Bipolar?, Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan

Guardian, May 16, 2009

Maharanis Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean,

Verene Shepherd Caribbean Indian Heritage Magazine, 2009

Bechu: Bound Coolie Radical in British Guiana, 18941901, Clem

Seecharan Caribbean Indian Heritage Magazine, 2009

Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, 18381920,

Lomarsh Roopnarine Caribbean Indian Heritage Magazine

Eurospan History Catalogue, 2008

Eurospan Literature Catalogue, 20082009

Eurospan New Book Catalogue, 2009

Eurospan Politics Catalogue, 2009

Eurospan New Titles Announcements, 2009

Eurospan African Studies Bestsellers, 2009

The University of the West Indies Press New and Forthcoming and Books in

Print Catalogue, 2009

The University of the West Indies Press Annual Report, 20072008

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T E X T B O O K A D O P T I O N S I N N O R T H A M E R I C AA N D T H E C A R I B B E A N

Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures,

Maureen Warner-Lewis, Delaware County Community College

(8 copies)


Alvin Wint, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

(400 copies)

Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from

the Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau, Emory University (12 copies)

Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and

the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, Temple University (15 copies)


the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, University of Houston (17 copies)


the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, University of Pittsburgh (12 copies)


the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, Florida International University (7 copies)


the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, University of Miami (8 copies)


the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, Carnegie Mellon University (33 copies)

Colonialism and Resistance in Belize: Essays in Historical Sociology,

O. Nigel Bolland, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (10 copies)



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Crossroads of Empire, Alan Cobley, University of Southern Florida

(16 copies)

Crossroads of Empire, Alan Cobley, University of Southern Florida(12 copies)

Crossroads of Empire, Alan Cobley, University of Southern Florida

(28 copies)


19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith, University of the West Indies,

Trinidad and Tobago (500 copies)

Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica,

Obika Gray, University of Houston (10 copies)


Obika Gray, Clark Atlanta University (3 copies)


Obika Gray, Temple University (10 copies)

Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kali

Pani, Brinda J. Mehta, Broome Community College (12 copies)


Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and

Tobago (35 copies)


Thompson, University of Central Florida (25 copies)


Donna Hope, University of Houston (25 copies)

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Donna Hope, Brown University (10 copies)

Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica,Donna Hope, University of California, Berkeley (36 copies)


Donna Hope Florida International University (10 copies)

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 175086,

Douglas Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder (16 copies)

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 175086,

Douglas Hall, University of Colorado (28 copies)

Inside Hillview High School: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Jamaican

School, Hyacinth Evans, William Patterson (52 copies)


School, Hyacinth Evans, Portland State (20 copies)


School, Hyacinth Evans, Luther College (10 copies)

Inside Jamaican Schools, Hyacinth Evans, Ripon College (10 copies)

Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing, Arvilla Payne-Jackson,

Mervyn C. Alleyne, Florida International University (7 copies)

Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women, Sistren with Honor

Ford-Smith, Portland State (18 copies)

Midlife and Older Women: Family Life, Work and Health in Jamaica,

Joan Rawlins, Florida International University (7 copies)



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Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean, edited by Holger Henke,

Fred Reno, Queens College (9 copies)

Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society, edited byBrian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan, University

of Southern Florida (16 copies)

Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society, edited by

Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan, Lehigh

University (27 copies)

Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies,16231775, Richard B. Sheridan, Emory University (15 copies)


the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne, University of Houston (35 copies)

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 175086, Douglas

Hall, University of Houston (35 copies)


Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

and Tobago (250 copies)

Identity and Secession: Tobago versus Trinidad, 18891980, Learie B. Luke,

University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago (250 copies)

Calaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South

Asians in Trinidad, Aisha Khan, University of the West Indies, Trinidad

and Tobago (250 copies)

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N O R T H A M E R I C A N L I B R A R Y M A R K E T

Over the last few years, the Press has aggressively targeted the North

American library market and has increased its penetration. More than

75% of our US sales are placed through the largest library wholesaler,

Baker and Taylor. The UWI Press books that have performed well in that

market in the last two years are presented in tables 1 and 2.


Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas , Alvin O. Thompson

A Dictionary of Jamaican English, edited by F.G. Cassidy, R.B. LePage

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom, edited by Kathleen E.A. Monteith, Glen Richards

Plantation Jamaica, 17501850, B.W. Higman

Central Africa in the Caribbean, Maureen Warner-Lewis

Jamaican Food: Histor y, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman

Gendered Realities, edited by Patricia Mohammed


Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Mervyn C. Alleyne

Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 16551844, Lucille Mathurin Mair, edited and introduced by

Hilary McD. Beckles, Verene A. Shepherd

Table 1 Top Ten Bestsellers to the US Library Market in Dollars, Baker and Taylor, 20072009

Source: Publisher Alley, Baker and Taylor Wholesalers


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The data is quite clear that UWI Press single-authored monographs inhistory and cultural studies perform better than other subject categories

in the North American library market, a niche market.

In the larger global marketplace, the history and cultural studies books

also perform well and accounted for 68% of sales in 2008 and 49% of

sales in 2009.

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Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas , Alvin O. Thompson

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom , edited by Kathleen E.A. Monteith, Glen Richards

The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica , Mordechai Arbell

A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States, Isaac Dookhan

Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women , Sistren with Honor Ford-Smith


Central Africa in the Caribbean , Maureen Warner-Lewis

Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica , Donna P. Hope

Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 17501890 , Steeve O. Buckrid ge

Table 2 Top Ten Bestseller s to the US Library Market (Units) Baker and Taylor, 20072009

Source: Publisher Alley, Baker and Taylor Wholesalers


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UWI Press single-

authored monographs

in history and cultural

studies perform better

than other subjectcategories in the North

American library market

Sales by Subject Category, 20082009

Sales by Subject Category, 20072008


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For both years, Caribbean history and cultural studies were the leading

performers but as the Press publishes more in the environmental and

health sciences, their overall contribution as a percentage of frontlist sales

will increase as called for in the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012.

Book sales are only one way to measure a books impact. Data collected

from Google Book Search indicate that although UWI Press books in

history and cultural studies are frequently viewed so, too, are books in

environmental studies, tourism and crime. (See tables 3 and 4.)

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Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues for Developing Countries, edited by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 16231775, Richard B. Sheridan

Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies, Kenneth Ingram

Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans , B.W. Higman

Understanding Crime In Jamaica,edited by Anthony Harriott

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom, edited by Kathleen E.A. Monteith, Glen Richards

Tourism and Hospitality Education in the Caribbean, edited by Chandana Jayawardena

Police and Crime Control in Jamaica,Anthony Harriott

Table 3 Top Ten UWI Press Books, Google Book Search Pages Viewed, 20042009

Source: UWI Press Account, Google Book Search


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S A L E S C A L L S A N D T E L E M A R K E T I N G A C T I V I T I E S

The two-member marketing department undertook direct sales calls to

over fifty accounts inJamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Antigua, and Grenada

with follow-up sales calls to Barbados and Trinidad in early January

2009. These efforts were not only important for Press visibility but

accounted for over 80% of all sales during this period and were well

worth the financial investment. Mail, phone and electronic orders

plunged during this period but direct personal contact resulted in orders.


Tourism and Hospitality Education in the Caribbean, edited by Chandana Jayawardena

Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues for Developing Countries, edited by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Trailblazers in Nursing Education, Hermi Hewitt

A Dictionary of Jamaican English,edited by F.G. Cassidy, R.B. LePage

Waterfalls of Jamaica, B.J. Hudson

Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans , B.W. Higman

Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 16231775, Richard B. Sheridan


Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies, Kenneth Ingram

Police and Crime Control in Jamaica, Anthony Harriott

Table 4 Top Ten UWI Press Books, Google Book Search Revenue, 20042009

Source: UWI Press Account, Google Book Search


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Intensive telemarketing to local high schools in January and February

drove sales to our local distributor, Kingston Bookshop, resulting in

restocking orders and secured bulk orders from non-traditional outlets,

particularly nursing associations and banks throughout the region.

A W A R D S , H O N O U R S A N D I N D U S T R YR E C O G N I T I O N

This year Press books, authors, and staff garnered an impressive array ofthirteen local, national, and international book and publishing awards.


19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith Principals Best Research

Publication (Book), Faculty of Humanities and Education, 20072008,

University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Recovering the Lost: Efforts at Reuniting Victims of Forced Separationafter 1834 Some Case Studies from Jamaica, 18341860, Jenny

Jemmott Principals Best Research Publication (Article), Faculty of

Humanities and Education, 20072008, University of the West Indies,

Jamaica

B.W. HigmansJamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture was named Book of

the Week,Antilles,Webblog ofCaribbean Review of Books, November

2008

B.W. HigmansJamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture was named a

notable book of 2008 by the Caribbean Review of Books. The selection was

made by the editors of the journal from among eighty-five books

published by regional and international publishers.

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Intensive tele-

marketing to local

high schools in

January and Februarydrove sales to our

local distributor,

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B.W. HigmansJamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture was awarded

Honourable Mention and Finalist status by the Association of American

Publishers for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE awards) in

the category of Archaeology and Anthropology. The fifteen-judge panel

included publishing professionals, librarians and academics from

universities such as the University of Toronto, New York University and

Columbia University. The judges made their decisions after reviewing a

record-breaking 439 entries from sixty professional and scholarly

publishers. Award-winning publishers included Harvard University Press,

Oxford University Press, and Yale University Press and large commercial

houses such as Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell. In all, thirty differentpublishers were named as PROSE winners and finalists for publishing

excellence and the University of the West Indies Press was the youngest

and newest publisher in that prestigious group.

B O O K I N D U S T R Y A S S O C I AT I O N O F J A M A I C A

At the Tenth Biennial Book Industry Association of Jamaica National Book

Award Ceremony, several UWI Press books, authors and staff wererecognized for excellence in publishing. A panel of judges composed of

academics, librarians, archivists, authors and designers selected the

winners from a total of fifty-three book submissions from twenty-two

publishers.

B E S T A C A D E M I C B O O K

For the first time in its twenty-year history, the Best Academic BookAward was shared among three titles:

B.W. Higman,Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture

Maureen Warner-Lewis,Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian

Jackie Ranston, Belisario: Sketches of Character A Historical Biography of

a Jamaican Artist, The Mill Press


Friends of the UWI Press at the Book Industry Association

of Jamaica award dinner, Harry Van lerssel, Jackie Ranston

and the Hon. Maurice Facey


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Three outstanding academic books. Belisario, Jamaica Food and Archibald Monteath, Book Industry Association of Jamaica award dinner, 2009


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B E S T R E F E R E N C E B O O K

B.W. Higman,Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture

B E S T A D U L T N O N - F I C T I O N

Maureen Warner-Lewis,Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian

Jackie Ranston, Belisario: Sketches of Character A Historical Biography of

a Jamaican Artist, The Mill Press

B E S T C O V E R

Although The Mill Presss Belisario emerged as the clear winner, two UWIPress book covers received more than 90% marks and received

commendations.

Jackie Ranston, Belisario: Sketches of CharacterA Historical Biography of

a Jamaican Artist, The Mill Press, First Place

B.W. Higman,Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, UWI Press,

Commendation

David Buisseret,Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National

Library of Jamaica, UWI Press, Commendation

L O N G - S E R V I C E A W A R D S

UWI Press is fortunate in that its staff has a great deal of publishing

experience. Our current staff has more than eighty-five years combined

experience in the publishing industry. Two employees receivedlong-service awards this year:

Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager, received a ten-year

long-service award

Karen Smith, Marketing Assistant, received a thirteen-year long-service

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Over the last decade, UWI Press has consistently dominated the BIAJ

National Book Awards in the Best Academic Book, Best Reference Book

and Best Adult Non-Fiction categories and has been a strong contender

for Best Cover Awards. The awards all testify to overall publishing

excellence. In 2006, the Press received the coveted Trailblazer Award for

significant contributions to international scholarship.

S H A R E D A W A R D S

Over the years the Press has also co-published books with pre-eminent

North American University Presses such as Duke University Press and the

University of North Carolina Press that have also garnered international

awards and publicity. These award-winning co-publications include:

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of

Revolution, Sibylle Fischer co-winner of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis

Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2007


Revolution, Sibylle Fischer Frantz Fanon Prize, Caribbean Philosophical

Association, 2005


Revolution, Sibylle Fischer Bryce Wood Award, Latin American Studies

Association, 2006


Revolution, Sibylle Fischer Katherine Singer Award, Modern Language

Association, 2006

Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution, 18681898, Ada Ferrer First

Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1999

Over the last

decade, UWI Presshas consistently

dominated the BIAJ

National Book

Awards in the Best

Academic Book,Best Reference

Book and Best

Adult Non-Fiction

categories and has

been a strongcontender for Best

Cover Awards

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Founded in 1992, the University of the West Indies Press is a young

publisher who has published 255 scholarly books that have won more

than forty local, national, regional and international book and publishing

awards.

B O O K S F O R U N D E R S T A N D I N G

The American Association of University Presses selects Books for Under-

standing, a free, easy-to-use resource to help locate books on current

events. New bibliographies are compiled when a major news story breaks.

The programme highlights one of the highest values of university

presses: to publish top research and scholarship in all fields regardless of

immediate commercial potential. Often the most complete and illuminating

back-ground research and knowledge for a breaking news story is only

available in scholarly books from presses committed to the public

interest (AAUP News Release, May 14, 2009). The University of the West

Indies Press recently had one of its co-publications selected: Insurgent

Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution, 18681898, Ada Ferrer.

Sylvia Jones, acting general manager, UWI

Bookshop, receives a promotional copy from

Karen Smith


UWI Press Award Winning


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Donna Muirhead presents Compton Bourne, president of the Caribbean Development Bank with a copy ofJamaican Food

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B O O K L A U N C H E S

Eleven launches were held with UWI Press books being launched in the

United States, Australia, Cuba, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad andTobago. In order to reduce expenditures, several books were grouped and

launched at major conferences such as the Caribbean Studies Association

meeting in Jamaica.

Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica,

David Buisseret,Jamaica

Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica,David Buisseret, United States


19261962, Kathleen E.A. Monteith,Jamaica

Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, B.W. Higman, Australia

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan, Barbados

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan, Trinidad and Tobago

Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man, Selwyn Ryan,Jamaica



Levitt, Cuba


Approach to Caribbean Economic Development, Lloyd Best, Kari PolanyiLevitt,Jamaica

Postcolonialsims: Caribbean Rereadings of Medieval English Discourse,

Barbara Lalla, Trinidad and Tobago


Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Trinidad and Tobago


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D O N A T I O N S

As in the past, the Press continued donating books to worthwhile

organizations, conferences and schools, thereby enhancing the local,

regional and international visibility of the University of the West Indies.

In February we collaborated with the World Bank and shipped

approximately twenty-five books to Ghana for distribution to university

and school libraries. In May the Press collaborated with the University of

the West Indies Library, Mona campus, to make complimentary copies of

Press books and catalogues available to the Library Institute of Latin

American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Also inMay books on crime and criminality were donated to the Ministry of

Security,Jamaica.

With paper and printing costs soaring, the Press printed 4,000 rather than

20,000 four-colour books-in-print catalogues this year. To reduce costs for

printing and mailing and yet reach our major constituencies in the United

States, we pursued and will pursue different e-mail strategies. We sent the

following e-mail brochure to 20,000 faculty members in North America at

a cost of approximately US$4,000, saving approximately US$12,000 on a

conventional mailing. We sent the electronic brochure to faculty teaching

religions of Africa, Caribbean literature, Caribbean studies, history of the

Caribbean, Third World history, people and cultures of the Caribbean,

sociology of developing countries, and government and politics of the

Third World. We also targeted academic libraries, history subject

specialists, collection development directors and humanities subject

specialists. According to market data, the results were very good, with

open rates of 14% against average unique rates of 8% to 12%.

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Actively participate in e-commerceStrategic Goal 4

We sent the following e-mailbrochure to 20,000 faculty

members in North America

at a cost of approximately

US$4,000, saving approxi-

mately US$12,000 on a

conventional mailing


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In addition, cost-effective e-mail campaigns to UWI Press authors inFebruary resulted in US$10,000 in net sales. The campaign was

relaunched in late May 2009.

Eurospan, our European distributor, mounted e-mail campaigns targeting

academic and retail bookshops in November 2008, which resulted in

modest sales growth in the European market.


Pictorial Highlights of Press


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Functions Over the Years


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N E W D I S T R I B U T I O N A R R A N G E M E N T S

On August 1, 2007, the Press entered into a new distribution arrangement

with Longleaf Services, Inc., a subsidiary of the University of NorthCarolina Press, with order fulfilment facilities in North Carolina and

access to the Maple-Vail warehouses in Pennsylvania. Both facilities are

located near major transportation hubs and will greatly reduce the many

shipping and handling charges the Press previously paid. Over 100,000

units were packed and shipped from our Oklahoma warehouse facility

and from Jamaica. The Press has vacated the former premises at 1A

Aqueduct Flats and returned the keys to the university and disposed of(sold) two containers on the Mona campus. Longleaf provides exclusive

distribution in the United States and the Caribbean, except in Jamaica.

At the same time, the Press entered into an arrangement with Kingston

Bookshop to distribute our titles in Jamaica. The new arrangements allow

the Press to achieve economies of scale in the back-end functions of order

fulfilment and warehousing and will generate cash savings of

approximately J$3 million per annum. Press staff has been reduced fromeleven to eight, eventually promising payroll savings as well.

The new arrangements are proving very successful. The US wholesalers

and our Canadian and British distributors are very pleased with the

arrangement because they now can order books published by the

University of the West Indies Press, University of North Carolina Press,

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Avoid the significant costs associated with building a new warehouse by

outsourcing the back-end order fulfilment and warehousing functions and

consolidating printing and warehousing in a North American facility.

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University Press from one source, saving time and

money for all involved.

Subsequent savings will also be realized because the

Press will now print 90% of its titles with Maple-

Vail, who will also warehouse the books. The

consolidation of printing, warehousing, and order

fulfilment services in the northeast United States

has also resulted in Ingrams subsidiary, Lighting

Source, opening a new print-on-demand facility in

Pennsylvania. Over 120 of our books are digitized

at Lightning Source and through a drop-ship

arrangement with Maple-Vail, we participate in a sophisticated order-on-

demand system, reducing the need for physical inventory, again resulting

in significant cash savings. These new arrangements and partnerships will

allow the Press to be very competitive in the global marketplace.

This goal of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012 has been fullyachieved, with efforts in 2008 spent in refining the relationship with

Longleaf, Lightning Source, Maple-Vail and Kingston Bookshop. It was

fortunate that these arrangements were in place before the recession

began to have an impact on publishing and that the Press avoided the

significant cash costs associated with building a brick-and-mortar

warehouse in Jamaica. By utilizing Lightning Source and Maple-Vail, the

Press has reduced its cash outlay for production bills, allowing it to use

available cash to pay liabilities to the University Centre and to fund sales

calls. Current efforts with our Longleaf and Kingston Bookshop

distributors involve streamlining the royalty and accounting processes,

ensuring more timely delivery of products, updating databases, and

making refinements in the system to better serve our authors and

customers in the United States and Caribbean.


UWI Press and Kingston Bookshop

partner to fuel books sales in Jamaica

F I N A N C I A L R E S U L T S , 2 0 0 9


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As the financial crisis in the United States spread globally and triggered a

credit crisis, book, journal and newspaper publishers were hard hit. USuniversities and public libraries had their budgets frozen or cut and

US wholesalers cut their orders and began returning books in record

numbers. The University of the West Indies Press was not immune to

these global trends, and, as oil prices fell, Trinidad and Tobago, our largest

market, began to delay book purchasing as well; in March 2009, the

Government of Trinidad and Tobago cut their book buying budget by

40%.

After several years of double-digit growth, Press net sales fell 67% in the

first quarter with returns reaching 24%, the highest percentage in the

sixteen-year history of the Press. Management took immediate corrective

action, emphasizing five goals:

Grow sales by reallocating funds to the sales function

Cut discretionary expenses, particularly in maintenance, marketing,production and administration

Ensure cash is available to pay the payroll bill to the University

Centre on a monthly basis

Ensure that goals of UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012 are met

Generate a year-end surplus

Cash expenses for maintenance, exhibits, conferences, launches, space

ads, catalogues, new positions, travel, training and development,

entertainment, and supplies were cut by approximately US$50,000, with

one-fifth of that reallocated to direct sales calls and telemarketing.

Freelance budgets for editorial and production were reduced and books

with significant sales potential were quickly moved into production and

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fiscal year. Print runs were reduced and less expensive paper was chosen

for forthcoming books. The print runs for catalogues and annual reports

were reduced as well, with more effort spent in e-marketing and sendingelectronic versions of annual reports. Overtime was cancelled as well as

software and capital upgrades. Replacement of positions or proposed new

staff positions were cancelled or delayed, with current staffing levels of

seven full-time contract employees remaining far below 1996 levels of

twelve full-time contract employees. All departments and all employees

have made cuts and shouldered an equal responsibility in taking on more

work to ensure that the Press achieves a balanced budget this year andmeets the goals of the strategic plan.

Ongoing efforts to generate additional revenue or cash were aggressively

pursued, with the Press generating approximately 37% to 42% of its

budget for the first six months from sales, grants, journal income,

royalties, interest payments and production grants.

Management monitored expenses with reductions targeted for audit andcourier charges and will continue to encourage authors to submit books

that do not have excessive page counts, which drive every aspect of costs

in the editorial, design and production process.

These actions resulted in some successes: backorders for sales in the

second quarter grew from US$12,000 to US$40,000; the sales potential

generated by sales calls in the second quarter bolstered sales during the

fiscal year and for the first quarter of 20092010, with end-of-the-year

surpluses budgeted for both years. Net sales for the second quarter grew

145%, indicating that the cash investment in sales calls in January was

worthwhile. By growing sales and cutting costs, the Press was able to

balance its budget by February 2009 and generate a surplus.

Continued efforts to grow sales, cut costs, and conserve cash, allowed


the Press to end the year with a respectable surplus of approximately


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J$6 million.

For now, the short-term financial health of the Press is critically depen-

dent on UWI faculty assigning UWI Press books in their courses; on

preventing illegal photocopying throughout the region, on placing more

units in the UWI bookshops, on growing nontraditional sales channels,

and on increasing sales to the ministries of education throughout the

region. The worldwide publishing industry is beleaguered and only

creative and proactive responses on the part of publishers, authors and

retailers to better serve their customers will ensure success in the academy

and the global marketplace.

C O N C L U S I O N

Despite the ongoing global recession, UWI Press is positioned to achieve

the goals of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012 and we ended anextremely difficult year with many of the ambitious goals of the plan met.

We will continue to carefully monitor discretionary costs, emphasize sales

growth, and carefully acquire books in the environmental and health

studies. As the Press approaches its seventeenth anniversary, its partner-

ships with UWI faculty, its authors and the ministries of education will be

critical in fostering its viability and growth. By emphasizing the peer-

review process and by pursuing international standards of excellence and

benchmarks, UWI Press books will continue to attract attention in the

global marketplace and the academy while the Press continually strives to

effectively sell these books in a cost-effective, ever-innovative manner.

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UWI Press books will

continue to attract

attention in the global

marketplace and the

academy while the

Press continuallystrives to effectively

sell these books in a

cost-effective, ever-

innovative manner

University of the West Indies Press Annual Report, 2008-2009

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