Approximately a month after our editors first consider your book proposal, and following discussions with colleagues and advisers, they will have a complete set of reviewers' reports, market information and professional opinions. This is the collective information used by the editor to determine whether or not to publish. When guiding you through the review process, our editors are not just considering the content of the proposed book. They are also considering the likely production costs, whether its length is right, whether the market is big enough and can be reached, whether the proposed price is what the market can bear, and, crucially, whether the project overall meets our financial criteria. Once your editor is satisfied that the proposed print run is sustainable and that the book meets all other criteria, he or she will present the documents to the Open University Press management team with a recommendation that we proceed to contract. The proposal will then be sent to our academic adviser at the Open University (OU) for final approval on behalf of the University. This is only a formality and is not part of the reviewing process. Once the proposal has been signed off at the OU your editor will send you a contract.

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