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Books: A Colorado Story

It鈥檚 been a banner year for the University Press of Colorado, the nonprofit book publisher co-founded by CU-麻豆影院 in 1965: The press turned 50 and topped $1 million in sales for the first time as it sold more books than ever.

鈥淲e鈥檙e in a place of growth and innovation,鈥� says Darrin Pratt, UPC鈥檚 director.

Established by CU, CSU, UNC and Fort Lewis College, the 麻豆影院-based scholarly press now includes a dozen member institutions and has published about 600 titles.

by CU-Denver historian Tom Noel (PhDHist鈥�78) is UPC鈥檚 all-time bestseller. and Mammals of Colorado, both by former CU-麻豆影院 professors, are also top sellers.

The press expects to add about 50 new titles this year, all of which will appear in print and as e-books: Deep into the digital age, print books still sell.

As UPC鈥檚 e-book sales have risen 鈥� more than 200 percent since 2013, to 11,000 units 鈥� so have paperback sales, up 15 percent to 36,046 units.

鈥淧rint is still a superior technology for reading long-form works in the scholarly realm,鈥� says Pratt, especially in archaeology and natural history, UPC strengths that often involve complex tables and illustrations that still render best in print.

While UPC paperbacks and e-books have a bright future, hardcovers may not. Libraries, a key consumer, are buying fewer as they reallocate resources to digital assets.

Says Pratt, 鈥淚 could foresee a day when we don鈥檛 print hardcovers.鈥�

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