Welcome to Yale Books Unbound

This project is part of the Institute for the Future of the Book's CommentPress experiment.

It's a way of sharing books and the ideas within them, as well as facilitating some of our works in progress.

Yale University Press is pleased to participate in this initiative since we see it as a very promising way of fulfilling our main objective of disseminating art and knowledge to the widest possible audience and facilitating on-going and all-important dialogues about ideas and issues that shape our world.

Up until now, very few book publishers have leveraged new technologies to add any additional value beyond basic Search functionality to their content. We agree with the Institute for the Future of the Book that a broad rethinking of books—and particularly scholarly monographs—needs to take place.

However, without participation and support from authors, scholars, and (most importantly) of readers, no amount of experimentation with forms will alter the way in which things seem always to have been done.We urge you to take part in these conversations by dipping into these books and to take part in whatever it is that they will become.