This is what I was saying. On the other hand, if you have no career ambitions, which is my case, and can’t be bothered with the hassle of trying to find another publisher, I don’t see a problem. Related to this, I know for a fact (since I eventually had a book published by a respectable academic press myself) that if you want a Ph.D. thesis published, it will have to reworked. They don’t, in the social sciences, normally, publish a thesis as it was written originally, since they are looking to sell as many copies as they can. This reworking of the text, and adding more material (books are often longer than theses) will take time you might not have. Secondly, publishers these days are very selective. I did the research on potential publishers of my own reworked thesis and even then, my manuscript was initially rejected by over 10 academic presses. So getting published the established way is not as easy as some seem to think!
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