Commercial Status of Pacific Linguistics
Pacific Linguistics does not aim to make (and does not make) a profit. Nonethless, we try to maintain a high publishing standard. These motives determine much in the way that we go about our publishing activities. For example, we do not pay royalties to authors, and we ask authors not to submit a manuscript to another publisher at the same time as it is submitted to us, as this may result in our expending money on a manuscript that someone else publishes. We also ask authors to participate actively in the process of preparing the manuscript for publication (see our pages for authors).
We are financed largely from the sales of our books to libraries and individuals throughout the world, with some assistance from the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, and, since 2002, from the Australian Linguistic Society.
If a book is likely to be particularly demanding to typeset because of the complexity of its examples, tables, figures and the like, then we ask the author to seek a publication subsidy from their home insitution or elsewhere in order help defray PL's publication costs.
The Editorial Board of Pacific Linguistics is made up of the academic staff of the School's Department of Linguistics, together with a representative of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Note
From 2012, Pacific Linguistics will become the Pacific Linguistics series published by De Gruyter Mouton in Berlin.
The Studies in Language Change subseries will become an independent De Gruyter Mouton series .