"Eye-opening, deeply troubling, eloquent, and compelling."

Luc Sante | Luc Sante

"Enemies of Promise is a humdinger about the crisis in academic publishing, where the ’publish or perish’ imperative has created towers of books that no one reads, even the professoriate. Author Lindsay Waters . . . paints an alarming picture of a bloated assembly line fueled by careerism and dedicated to mediocrity."

Bill Marx | WBUR Boston Public Radio

"With great vigor, Enemies of Promise takes on the commericalization of the university generally and publishing specifically."

Russell Jacoby | New York Times

"Waters has done the world of ideas a service in writing about its infrastructure frankly, thoughtfully, and for the most part, readably . . . I recommend it to every academic, including scientists."

Andrew Robinson | Times Higher Education Supplement

"Waters gives pained and expert attention to a major crisis in higher education. It is relevant not only to scholarly practise but to the conduct of academic publishers. The enemy is large and menacing, but the fight is a noble one."

Sir Frank Kermode

"A thought-provoking study of a different kind."

Andreas Hess | Irish Times

"Lindsay Waters, executive editor for the Humanities at Harvard University Press, has issued a challenge to academics and publishers: to publish less, with more relevance. . . . Waters criticizes the ’publish-or-perish’ mentality that has produced an avalanche of books of little or no importance."

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