John Benjamins Publishing Company

For books, we ask for a book proposal first. Some authors (monograph) or volume editors send this directly to the series editor, some send it to the publisher’s editorial department. We consider if the book fits our publishing program, looks of sufficient quality and relevance and has a feasible market, before we proceed to ask for a full manuscript for review. In the case of a monograph, the relevant series editors organize the review, using board members and/or external reviewers. In the case of an edited volume, the volume editors perform the initial review (using external reviewers) to make the selection for their volume; the series editors check this process, check the book manuscript themselves and may arrange addition review by board members and/or external reviewers. Because a book publication is very expensive, the publisher — usually through their editorial staff — are also involved, as we cannot accept a book manuscript for publication if we do not expect to be able to sell enough copies to recover the production costs; unless, of course, the authors/editors can pay for Open Access publication, in which case only the assessment of the quality is relevant.