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THE UNIVERSITY OF

THE WEST INDIES PRESS

2012 JAMAICA BARBADOS TRINIDAD & TOBAGO OPEN CAMPUS


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J a m a i c a B a r b a d o s T r i n i d a d & T o b a g o Op e n C a m p u s

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

a n n u a l r e p o r t 2 0 1 2


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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.

M I S S I O N

S T A T E M E N T

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

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair

Professor Funso Aiyejina, Vice Chancellors Representative

Dr Carla N. Barnett, Caribbean Development Bank

Archibald Campbell, Director of Finance and University Bursar

Professor Andrew Downes, Cave Hill Representative

Valerie Facey, Private Sector, Jamaica

Luz Longworth, Western Campus Representative

Beverly Pereira, University Counsel

Professor Julie Meeks-Gardner, Open Campus Representative

Dr Kathleen Monteith, Mona Representative

Beverly Smith-Hinkson, Private Sector, BarbadosErrol Simms, St Augustine Representative

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 T A F F

Nadine Buckland, Finance Manager

Jean Honeyghan, Publishing Assistant

Jodie McBean, Accounting Officer

Donna Muirhead, Marketing and Sales Manager

Karen Smith, Marketing and Sales Assistant

Linda Speth, General Manager

Herleth Thompson, Accounting Clerk


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UWI PRESS ANNUAL REPORT 2012 3

C O N T E N T S Executive Summary / 4Books and Journals Published / 6

Conferences, Lectures, Exhibits, Sales Calls, Launches, Catalogues,

Reviews, Awards and Honours /20Book Launches, Author Appearances, Interviews, Readings and Signings /23

Print and Electronic Catalogues and Flyers /28

Miscellaneous Print and Electronic Publicity /28

Awards /29

Book Reviews / 30

Financial Results 20112012 / 32

Conclusion / 33

Appendix 1: UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012: A Brief Progress Report / 34


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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it

was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of

incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the

spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had

nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the

other way in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its

noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the

superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens,A Tale of Two Cities

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

During 20112012, the Press generated net sales of J$31 million, a 73%

increase over the previous period; planned the Twentieth Anniversary and

Author Awards Ceremony; published forty-five peer-reviewed print

books, journals and reprints; published eighty-six e-books in the Kindle

and Kobo stores; sold 200 e-books to one account; had a presence at

twenty international, regional and local conferences, exhibits and

lectures; utilized social media such as Facebook, Scribd, Flickr and

YouTube; redesigned a new web page and electronic catalogue featuring

more than 300 books in print; deployed an electronic survey through the

four university portals to determine student needs and interest in

Caribbean print and electronic books; won five industry awards; kept the

salary bill to the University Centre current; eliminated the outstanding

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contributing to a vibrant indigenous

publishing industry throughout the Caribbean


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cumulative deficit; and concentrated on achieving the goals of the UWI

Press Strategic Plan, 20072012, particularly by acquiring books in

environmental and health studies, by contributing to a vibrant indigenouspublishing industry throughout the Caribbean, by improving our

international visibility and our global print and electronic distribution

networks, and by quickly confronting the twin challenges of the global

recession and declining print sales and taking corrective actions.

The year marked a historical watershed for the University of the West

Indies Press.

For the first time in its twenty-year history,

electronic revenues exceeded print revenues

the cumulative deficit was eliminated, an achievement relatively few

university presses can claim during these challenging times

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

that directly support the goals of the UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012accepted by the universitys Finance and General Purposes Committee in

January 2008.

Overall, the Press fully or substantively achieved all of its objectives and

goals with the exception of generating targeted sales growth. However,

other income, electronic revenues with high margins and cost controls

resulted in significant bottom-line financial goals being achieved.

As the Press moves forward and continues its commitment to publishing

excellence and its service to its authors and its university, it is clear that

the traditional print revenue sales model is under siege. Aggressive and

innovative approaches must be embedded in the UWI Press Operational

Plan, 20122014. Such a transformative plan will require extensive

consultation of our constituencies, including board members, faculty,

students, staff and administrators.



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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 20112012, the Press published twelve new print books, two print

journals and thirty-one print reprints. In addition the Press published

eighty-six e-books in the Kindle and Kobo stores bringing total

publications to 131.

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

Natural Hazards Atlas of Jamaica, Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr and Rafi Ahmad

Observations on the Changes of the Air and the Concomitant Epidemical

Diseases in the Island of Barbados,William Hillary; edited by J. Edward

Hutson and Henry S. Fraser

Scientific Principles of Stress,James L. Mills

Social Psychological Dynamics, edited by Derek Chadee and AlexsandraKosti

Becoming Belize: A History of an Outpost of Empire Searching for Identity,

15281823, Mavis Campbell

Border Crossings: Caribbean Women Writers, edited by Nicole Roberts and

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

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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 contribute

significantly to furthering intellectual discourse and regional development.

UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012, Goal 1


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From Tin Pan to TASPO: Steelband in Trinidad, 19391951, Kim Johnson

Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay, 17291788,

B.W. Higman

Paks Britannica: Articles and Interviews with David Dabydeen, edited by

Lynne Macedo

Talking Words: New Essays on the Work of David Dabydeen, edited by

Lynne Macedo

Hope Transformed: A Historical Sketch of the Hope Landscape, St Andrew,Jamaica, 16601960, Veront Satchell

Anansis Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance, Emily Zobel

Marshall

Journal of Caribbean History 45, no. 2

Journal of Caribbean History 46, no. 1

The following thirty-one books were reprinted by traditional means,

digitized or produced as short-run digital titles or print-on-demand

(POD) to meet ongoing course demand, to conserve cash and to ensure

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

distributor in Jamaica, Kingston Bookshop, Ltd:

Maharanis Misery: Narratives of a Passage from India to the Caribbean,Verene A. Shepherd

Contrary Voices: Representations of West Indian Slavery, 16571834, edited

by Karina Williamson

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

Harriott



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Tourism and Hospitality Education and Training in the Caribbean, edited by

Chandana Jayawardena

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

Jerome S. Handler

Lady Nugents Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805:

A New and Revised Edition, edited by Philip Wright

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

Ford Smith

Philosophy in the West Indian Novel, Earl McKenzie

Slaves Who Abolished Slavery: Blacks in Rebellion, Richard Hart

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

Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 175086,

Douglas Hall

New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, edited by Brian Meeks and

Folke Lindahl

Out of Order! Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing,

Kim Robinson-Walcott

Port Royal, Jamaica, Michael Pawson and David Buisseret

The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica, Mordechai Arbell

Walter Rodney: 1968 Revisited, Rupert C. Lewis

Dictionary of Jamaican English, Second Edition, edited by F.G. Cassidy

and R.B. Le Page

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Caribbean Women at the Crossroads: The Paradox of Motherhood among

Women of Barbados, St Lucia and Dominica, Patricia Mohammed and

Althea Perkins

Competitiveness in Small Developing Economies: Insights from the Caribbean,

Alvin Wint

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

Maureen Warner-Lewis

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

Performance of Gender, Curdella Forbes

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

Alvin O. Thompson

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

Charles W. Mills

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

Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies, K.E. Ingram

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

Learie Luke

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Culture, edited by

Kathleen E.A. Monteith and Glen Richards

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

Baban

The Jamaican People 18801902: Race, Class and Social Control,

Patrick Bryan

Tobago in Wartime, 17931815, K.O. Lewis



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Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies,

16231775, Richard B. Sheridan

KI N D L E B O O K S

Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcotts

Poetry, Patricia Ismond



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

Metzgen and John Graham

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla

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

Obika Gray

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

Exploring the Palace of the Peacock: Essays on Wilson Harris, Joyce Sparer

Adler; edited by Irving Adler


Alvin O. Thompson

From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the CulturalPerformance of Gender, Curdella Forbes


Learie Luke

In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 175086,

Douglas Hall

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

Donna P. Hope

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

Mervyn C. Alleyne

Learning to Be a Man: Culture, Socialization and Gender Identity in Five

Caribbean Communities, Barry Chevannes



Paks Britannica:Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen, edited by

Lynne Macedo


Charles W. Mills

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

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


Lynne Macedo

The Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the Postmodern Age,

Claudette M. Williams

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

When Me Was a Boy, Charles Hyatt

Women in Grenadian History, 17831983, Nicole Laurine Phillip

The Man Who Ran Away and other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s and

1930s, Alfred H. Mendes, edited by Michle Levy



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Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica, Diana

J. Fox

The Economics of Development in Small Countries: With Special Reference to

the Caribbean,William G. Demas; co-published with the Caribbean

Development Bank

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

co-published with the Centre for Caribbean Lexicography, University of

the West Indies

The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean

and the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne

Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean

Diaspora, Stefano Harney

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

Horace Levy

Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women, edited by Rosanne

Kanhai

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

Verene A. Shepherd

Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica,

Frederic G. Cassidy

Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music,

Curwen Best

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

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

Kala Pani, Brinda J. Mehta

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Male Underachievement in High School Education in Jamaica, Barbados and

St Vincent and the Grenadines, Odette Parry; co-published with the Centre

for Gender and Development Studies, Mona, Jamaica

Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba,

Nicaragua and Grenada, Brian Meeks

Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean, Brian Meeks

Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaicas Foreign Relations,

19721989, Holger W. Henke

Organized Crime and Politics in Jamaica: Breaking the Nexus,

Anthony Harriott

Caribbean Migration, Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit,

edited by Frances Henry and Dwaine E. Plaza

KO B O B O O K S

Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcotts

Poetry, Patricia Ismond



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

Metzgen and John Graham

Cascade: A Novel, Barbara Lalla



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

Obika Gray

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

Exploring the Palace of the Peacock: Essays on Wilson Harris, Joyce Sparer

Adler; edited by Irving Adler


Alvin O. Thompson

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

Performance of Gender, Curdella Forbes


Learie Luke

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

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

Donna P. Hope

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

Mervyn C. Alleyne

Learning to Be a Man: Culture, Socialization and Gender Identity in Five

Caribbean Communities, Barry Chevannes



Paks Britannica:Articles by and Interviews with David Dabydeen, edited by

Lynne Macedo


Charles W. Mills

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

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

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Lynne Macedo

The Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the Postmodern Age,Claudette M. Williams

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

When Me Was a Boy, Charles Hyatt

Women in Grenadian History, 17831983, Nicole Laurine Phillip

The Man Who Ran Away and other Stories of Trinidad in the 1920s and

1930s, Alfred H. Mendes; edited by Michle Levy

Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica,

Diana J. Fox

The Economics of Development in Small Countries: With Special Reference to

the Caribbean,William G. Demas; co-published with the Caribbean

Development Bank

New Register of Caribbean English Usage, edited by Richard Allsopp; co-

published with the Centre for Lexicography, University of the West Indies

The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean

and the World, Mervyn C. Alleyne

Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean

Diaspora, Stefano Harney

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

Horace Levy

Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women, edited by Rosanne

Kanhai

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

Verene A. Shepherd



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Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica,

Frederic G. Cassidy

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

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

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

Kala Pani, Brinda J. Mehta

Male Underachievement in High School Education in Jamaica, Barbados and

St Vincent and the Grenadines, Odette Parry; co-published with the Centre

for Gender and Development Studies, Mona, Jamaica

Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba,

Nicaragua and Grenada, Brian Meeks

Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean, Brian Meeks

Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaicas Foreign Relations,19721989, Holger W. Henke

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

Harriott

Caribbean Migration, Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit,

edited by Frances Henry and Dwaine E. Plaza

In addition, the following twenty-five titles are in development, revision

or in press:

Golokwati: A tidalectics history of our Thymes, vol. 1, Kamau Brathwaite

Golokwati: A tidalectics history of our Thymes, vol. 2, Kamau Brathwaite

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Britains Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide,

Hilary McD. Beckles

Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 18071838, Dave St

Aubyn Gosse

Facing the Challenge of Emancipation, Sehon S. Goodridge, edited by

Anthony Phillips, with a foreword by Hilary McD. Beckles; co- published

with the Barbados Museum and Historical Society

A Changing Mosaic: The Cave Hill Space through Time, Woodville Marshall

Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean,

17602011,Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby

Observations on the Changes of the Air and Concomitant Epidemical Diseases

in the Island of Barbadoes, William Hillary; edited by J. Edward Hutson

and Henry S. Fraser, paper

Public Health in Jamaica, 18501940: A Narrative of Neglect, Philanthropyand Development, Margaret Jones

Legal and Policy Perspectives on HIV and Rights in the Caribbean:

Papers from the UWI Symposium and Human Rights in the Caribbean,

1314 September 2010, edited by Sir George Alleyne and Rose-Marie

Antonine

HIV and AIDS: Knowledge and Stigma in Guyana, Prem Misir

Gender Variances and Sexual Differences, edited by Marjan de Bruin-

Maxwell and R. Anthony Lewis; co-published with the University of the

West Indies HIV and AIDS Response Programme

Caribbean Heritage: A Source Book, edited by Basil A. Reid; co-published

with the Reed Foundation, Inc.



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Exodus, Giulia Bonacci, with a translation by Antoinette Tidjani Alou

Global Reggae, edited by Carolyn Cooper; co-published with the Prince

Claus Fund

Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities, Women and Music,

edited by Ifeona Harrison Fulani

Rihanna: Bad Girl, Done Best, Barbados Artist World, edited by Heather

Russell and Hilary McD. Beckles

Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender, edited by V. Eudine

Barriteau; co-published with the Institute for Gender and DevelopmentStudies: Nita Barrow Unit, University of the West Indies

The Child and the Caribbean Imagination, edited by Giselle Anella Rampaul

and Geraldine Elizabeth Skeete

Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity, edited by Jeannette Allsopp and

John R. Rickford; co-published with the University of the West Indies

Centre for Lexicography, University of the West IndiesEric Walrond: The Critical Heritage, edited by Louis J. Parascandola

and Carl A. Wade

Selected Writings of Alfred H. Mendes, Alfred H. Mendes; edited by

Michle Levy

The Underachieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad

and Tobago, 19582008, Terrence W. Farrell

Research Methods in Caribbean Literary Discourse Culture, edited by

Barbara Lalla, Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and

Valerie Youssef

Caribbean Tourism,Jean Holder, with a foreword by Sir Courtney

Blackman

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During 20112012, UWI Press management spent considerable time in

supporting, sustaining and promoting the nascent book-publishing

industry in the Caribbean. Press management served on the following

boards:

Book Industry Association of Jamaica

Caribbean Quarterly

Caribbean Journal of Gender Studies

Caribbean Working Party

Caribbean Literature Action Group

Caribbean Publishers Network


Assume a more active role regionally and internationallyin the publishing industry.


CQCARIBBEAN

Quarterlya journal of Caribbean culture


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

C A L L S , L A U N C H E S , C A T A L O G U E S , R E V I E W S ,

A W A R D S A N D H O N O U R S

The Press had a presence at twenty conferences, lectures and exhibits in

seven countries, and undertook sales calls to Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad

and Tobago, Antigua, and Guadeloupe. The two-member Marketing and

Sales Department is to be commended for the range and depth of their

activities within budget.

XLI Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean University,

Research & Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)

USA

Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum

Jamaica

BIAJ Annual Booksellers Trade Show 2011

Jamaica

Orientation for Undergraduate Students

University of the West Indies

Jamaica

Teaching Skills Workshop for UWI Western Jamaica Campus

Jamaica

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Highlight UWIs research internationally, regionally and nationally.



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UWI/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Workshop


Jamaica

Mona Academic Conference


Jamaica

Frankfurt Book Fair

The Eurospan Group Stand

Germany

London Book Fair

The Eurospan Group Stand

United Kingdom

Research Day


Jamaica

23rd Annual Conference of the Haitian

Studies Association


Jamaica

SALISES 50/50 Law and Justice in the Commonwealth

Caribbean Conference


Jamaica

BIAJ Kingston Book Festival

Emancipation Park

Jamaica



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BIM Lit Fest

Barbados

BOCAS Literary Festival

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Studies Association

Guadeloupe

Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics


Barbados

Caribbean Reasonings Conference


Jamaica

National Cathedral Flower Mart

USA

American Library Association

USA

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B O O K L A U N C H E S , A U T H O R A P P E A R A N C E S ,

I N T E R V I E W S , R E A D I N G S A N D S I G N I N G S

The Jamaican Theatre: Highlights of the Performing Arts in the Twentieth Century

Wycliffe Bennett and Hazel Bennett

UWI Bookshop, Authors Day

Jamaica


Vivian Crawford and Hazel

Bennett at the launch of

Jamaican Theatre


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The Jamaican Theatre: Highlights of the Performing Arts in the Twentieth

Century


Little Theatre

Jamaica


Century


UWI Lecture

Jamaica


Century


TVJ Interview

Jamaica

Jamaican Gold: Jamaican SprintersEdited by Rachael Irving and Vilma Charlton

TVJ Interview

Jamaica

Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters

Edited by Rachael Irving and Vilma Charlton

BBC Interview

Jamaica

Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters

Edited by Rachael Irving and Vilma Charlton

NPR Interview

Jamaica

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Competiveness in Small Developing Economics: Insights from the Caribbean

Alvin Wint


Jamaica

Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian



Jamaica

Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian


YouTube

Jamaica

Philosophy in the West Indian Novel

Earl McKenzie


Jamaica

Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives

Brian Meeks


Jamaica

Natural Hazards Atlas of Jamaica

Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr and Rafi AhmadUWI Bookshop, Authors Day

Jamaica

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

Verene A. Shepherd


Jamaica



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

Donna P. Hope


Jamaica

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

Donna P. Hope

YouTube

Jamaica

Out of Order! Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing



Jamaica

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

Obika Gray


Jamaica

Cascade: A Novel

Barbara Lalla

YouTube

Trinidad and Tobago

Cascade: A Novel

Barbara Lalla

UWI Campus Literatures Week

Trinidad and Tobago

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

Edited by Horace Levy

YouTube

Jamaica

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Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite

Edited by Annie Paul

YouTube

Jamaica

A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 16551844

Lucille Mathurin Mair; edited by Hilary McD. Beckles and

Verene A. Shepherd

YouTube

Jamaica

Inside Jamaican Schools

Hyacinth Evans

YouTube

Jamaica

Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom: History, Heritage and Freedom

Edited by Kathleen Monteith and Glen Richards

YouTubeJamaica

Mona, Past and Present: The History and Heritage of the Mona Campus,


Suzanne Francis-Brown

YouTube

Jamaica


The National Dance Theatre

Company at the launch of

Jamaican Theatre


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P R I N T A N D E L E C T R O N I C C A T A L O G U E S

A N D F L Y E R S

UWI Press New and Forthcoming 20112012 on-line catalogue

UWI Press New and Forthcoming 20112012 print catalogue

Eurospan New Titles Catalogue 20112012 on-line catalogue

Eurospan New Titles Catalogue 20112012 print catalogue

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

P U B L I C I T Y

Numerous postings/uploads on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Scribd and

YouTube

The launch of the new UWI Press website on the Cave Hill, Mona,

Open Campus and St Augustine webpages

The launch of the new UWI Press website on http://spicewriter.wordpress.com

The launch of UWI Press books on Kindle on the Cave Hill, Mona,

Open Campus and St Augustine webpages

The launch of UWI Press books on Kindle, Sunday Gleaner, 25 March

2012

The launch of the Black History Month Initiative on the Cave Hill,

Mona, Open Campus and St Augustine webpages


CenturyWycliffe Bennett and Hazel Bennett, UWI Connect, September

November 2011.

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Century,Wycliffe Bennett and Hazel Bennett, Observer, 17 October 2011

Paks Britannica: Articles and Interviews with David Dabydeen, edited byLynne Macedo


Lynne Macedo

Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters, edited by Rachael Irving and Vilma

Charlton, London Review of Books, May 2012

Paks Britannica: Articles and Interviews with David Dabydeen, edited byLynne Macedo


Lynne Macedo

Jamaican Gold: Jamaican Sprinters, edited by Rachael Irving and Vilma

Charlton, London Review of Books, August 2012

UWI Press Receives International Recognition, UWI Connect,MarchMay 2012

A W A R D S

Matthew J. Smith, Haiti: An Analysis of Herbert G. DeLissers Land of

Revolution , Journal of Caribbean History 44, no. 2 (2010): 183200. Best

Publication, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, Mona, January2012

B.W. Higman, Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay,

17291788, ForeWord 2011 Finalist

B.W. Higman, Proslavery Priest: The Atlantic World of John Lindsay,

17291788, ForeWord 2011 Gold Medal Winner



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Wycliffe and Hazel Bennett,Jamaican Theatre: Highlights of the Performing

Arts in the Twentieth Century, ForeWord 2011 Finalist

Wycliffe and Hazel Bennett,Jamaican Theatre: Highlights of the PerformingArts in the Twentieth Century, ForeWord 2011 Silver Medal Winner

Over the last five years, UWI Press authors and publications have received

twenty-nine awards, and we have seen the number and diversity of the

awards increase significantly. (In its first fifteen years, the Press received a

total of thirteen awards.)

B O O K R E V I E W S

Scholarly reviews in academic journals continue to be an important

means of disseminating scholarly information and generating sales to

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

reviews and has many scheduled for release in 2012 and 2013. 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.

Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, Brian Meeks, New

West Indian Guide 84, nos. 3 & 4 (2010)

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

New West Indian Guide 84, nos. 3 & 4 (2010)

Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and

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

Barker, New West Indian Guide 85, nos. 3 & 4 (2011)

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The Press has seen anincrease in its tracked

reviews and has many

scheduled for release in

2012 and 2013. It will

continue to concentrate on

emphasizing international

review coverage.


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

New West Indian Guide 86, nos. 1 & 2 (2012)

Cultural DNA: Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica,

Diana J. Fox, New West Indian Guide 86, nos. 1 & 2 (2012)

Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010,

edited by Martin Munro, New West Indian Guide 86, nos. 3 & 4 (2012)

Women in Grenadian History, 17831983, Nicole L. Phillip, New West

Indian Guide 86, nos. 3 & 4 (2012)

Export/Import Trends and Economic Development in Trinidad, 19191939,

Doddridge H.N. Alleyne, New West Indian Guide 86, nos. 3 & 4 (2012)

British-Controlled Trinidad and Venezuela: A History of Economic Interests

and Subversions, 18301962, Kelvin Singh, New West Indian Guide 86,

nos. 3 & 4 (2012)

They Do As They Please: The Jamaican Struggle for Cultural Freedom afterMorant Bay, Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson, New West Indian

Guide 87, nos. 1 & 2 (2013)

West Indian Business History: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, B.W.

Higman and Kathleen E.A. Montieth, New West Indian Guide 87,

nos. 1 & 2 (2013)

Ye Shall Dream: Patriarch Granville Williams and the Barbados Spiritual

Baptists, Ezra E. H. Griffith, New West Indian Guide 87, nos. 1 & 2 (2013)


Charles W. Mills, New West Indian Guide 87, nos. 1 & 2 (2013)


Century, Wycliffe Bennett and Hazel Bennett, New West Indian Guide 87,

nos. 3 & 4 (2013)



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F I N A N C I A L R E S U L T S 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 2

In addition to diversifying our list development by publishing more books

in environmental and health studies, publishing several award-winning

books, and maximizing publicity and outreach efforts this year, the Press

posted significant financial improvements, particularly in strengthening

its balance sheet during difficult economic times.

Net sales reached J$31 million, an increase of 73% over the previous

period, with our sister presses posting a 10% increase. Selling, general

and administrative expenses declined both as a dollar amount and as a

percentage. The sales increase and efforts to control costs resulted in a

surplus of J$12 million, which eliminated the Presss twenty-year

cumulative deficit. This achievement is noteworthy because presses in

our sales group have posted ongoing deficits for at least the last four years

while UWI Press has posted surpluses for the last four years.

The strategy of developing both print and electronic revenue streams this

year proved very successful. Although the trend of declining print sales

continued, innovative electronic publishing strategies developed by the

Marketing and Sales Department throughout the Caribbean saw electronic

revenues grow from J$6,000 to J$20 million. In addition, the develop-

ment, monitoring and timely submission of detailed financial schedules

allowed management to control costs and complete the audit processby 7 September 2012, the earliest in history. Working together, the

Marketing and Sales Department and Finance Department harmonized

the entire budgeting process, which allowed us to complete a successful

year as the publishing industry worldwide was rocked by bankruptcies,

closures, mergers and growing financial challenges.

The sales increase and

efforts to control costs

resulted in a surplus of

J$12 million, which

eliminated the Presss

twenty-year cumulative

deficit. This achievement

is noteworthy because

presses in our sales

group have posted

ongoing deficits for at

least the last four years

while UWI Press has

posted surpluses for the

last four years.

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C O N C L U S I O N

The year marked a watershed for the University of the West Indies Press.

It was a time of great change and many achievements:

electronic revenues exceeded print revenues

net surplus reached J$12 million

the cumulative deficit was eliminated

it completed its second successful strategic plan, UWI Press Strategic

Plan, 20072012

it embarked on a transformation process from print to digital

publishing

The future success and growth of the University of the West Indies Press

will be tied to its perceived and actual value to its university, its faculties

and authors and its varied constituencies. The transformation process,

only begun, must be inspired, driven and accelerated by its stakeholders.

Only those university publishers who embrace such a transformative,

collaborative and digital model relevant to the needs of their universities

will survive and thrive in the twenty-first century.

The future success and

growth of the University

of the West Indies Presswill be tied to its perceived

and actual value to its

university, its faculties and

authors and its varied

constituencies.



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A P P E N D I X I

UWI Press Strategic Plan, 20072012: A Brief Progress Report

P R E S S G O A L S , O B J E C T I V E S A N D S T R A T E G I E S

1. Publish 45 books, journals, and reprints annually

Fully achieved

2. Highlight the Universitys research

Fully achieved

Held University of the West Indies Press Fifteenth Anniversary

and Author Awards Ceremony, Barbados, 2008

Held University of the West Indies Press Eighteenth Anniversaryand Author Awards Ceremony, Trinidad and Tobago, 2010

Planned University of the West Indies Press Twentieth

Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony, Jamaica, 2013

Won 29 awards

Attended 122 conferences and exhibits and 34 launches

Generated 124 reviews, 30 ads, and more than 18,000 cooperative

mailings to US faculty members

Distributed more than 200,000 print and electronic catalogues,

news releases and fliers throughout the Caribbean, Canada, the

United States, the United Kingdom and Europe

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Revised, revamped and relaunched the UWI Press web page

Utilized social and publishing media on Facebook, Scribd,

YouTube and LinkedIn

3. Actively participate in e-publishing and e-commerce

Fully achieved

Launched 43 books in Kindle Store, or 14% of list

Launched 43 books in Kobo Store, or 14% of list

Launched e-book initiative of selling 200 e-books to 6 regional

accounts. To date, revenue from one account has been

J$19 million, with a gross margin of 86%

Revised, revamped and relaunched new web page

Utilized social and publishing media on Facebook, Scribd,

YouTube and LinkedIn

4. Outsource order fulfilment and warehousing

Fully achieved

5. Assume active role in publishing industry

Fully achieved

Served on the Book Industry Association of Jamaica Board

Chaired Eleventh Biennial BIAJ National Publishing and Writing

Award Competition

Served on the Caribbean Literature Action Group



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Served on the Caribbean Publishers Working Party

Served on the Caribbean Publishers Network Council

Served on the Caribbean Quarterly board

Served on the Caribbean Journal of Gender Studies board

Held workshops for faculty, staff and students on how to enhance

publication rates and/or improve writing and research skills

Published and distributed books on publishing scholarly research

in the Caribbean

Served as resource person for questions about e-publishing,

copyright and grant applications

6. Pay off liability to University Centre and eliminate cumulative deficit

Fully achieved

7. Ensure Press goals are aligned with the universitys

Fully achieved

8. Expand publishing in environmental and health studies

Substantively achieved

Environmental studies: 10 products planned and/or published as

print, free or e-books targeted for policymakers, students and faculty.

Health studies/medical studies: 20 products planned and/or published

as print, dual editions or e-books targeted for policymakers, students

and faculty.

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9. Grow sales, increase grant activity, and generate other income

Partially achieved

Although print revenue declined or remained flat during this period,

increased grant activity, other income and income from electronic

products at a much lower cost helped offset the decline and

contributed to a positive bottom line for four of the five years.

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

For the five-year period, UWI Press generated a cumulative

surplus while our sister presses generated a cumulative deficit.

UWI Press inventory levels at 22% of net sales are significantly

lower than our peers at 52%, which means dollars invested in

inventory translate into sales faster than our peers.

UWI Press print sales peaked in 2008, as did sales for all book

publishers worldwide.

UWI Press electronic revenues surpassed our print sales in 2012

while our sister presses still generated the largest part of their

revenue from print sales.

UWI Press total revenues and productivity levels have improved

significantly over the years but are lower than our sister presses.

Despite substantial achievements over its first two decades, it is clear that

the UWI Press print revenue sales model must be modified for the

twenty-first century. The data is overwhelming as print publishers

worldwide struggle with declining revenues, escalating costs, eroding

margins, and systemic deficits. All book publishers, including UWI Press,

must shift to an electronic sustainable model.



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U W I P R E S S T R A N S F O R M A T I O N

1. Develop alternative revenue streams and present to the board

Completed

2. Review 400 contracts for verification that Press holds electronic rights

to content

Completed

3. Develop a student survey and appropriate methodology to inform a

communications strategy

Completed

4. Have survey approved/discussed with university registrar, commun-

ications officers of the four campuses and guilds of students to ensure

institutional and student buy-in and to begin building a community-

based approach to transformation

Completed

5. Launch survey through UWIs new student portals to determine

student interest in Caribbean books in print or electronic formats.

Completed

6. Recommend to the vice chancellor that a task force of constituents

and board members be assembled with the remit of defining what theuniversity needs from its Press and how it is to be funded.

Pending and action required

7. Launch survey through UWIs portals to determine faculty interest in

Caribbean books in print or electronic formats.

Pending and action required

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C O N C L U S I O N

The transformation from a print to a digital model will be embedded in

the University of the West Indies Press Operational Plan, 20122014. At thispoint, it appears that the document will be more student- and faculty-

focused than previous plans and will include all the campuses and

particularly the Open Campus more in the consultation process.

It is recommended that the task force should be assembled as soon as

possible.



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