Academic publishing is in dismal shape. Squeezed by the rising cost of science journals, libraries have been buying fewer academic monographs. In the early 1990s, in response to dwindling library demand, the number of new titles began to decline. So Princeton professor Robert Darnton has decided to do something about it. He has become a true believer in the Internet’s potential to transform academic publishing – by helping university presses publish more monographs and maybe even by enabling scholars to produce better history. – Lingua Franca