Abstract

landscapes, Vol. 16 No. 2, November, 2015, 103–104 Paul Stamper AND Graham Fairclough With this issue Paul Stamper now steps down after more than ten years as joint editor, having shared duties first with Dave Austin and latterly with Graham Fair- clough. Over that time there have been a number of changes, most notably of pub- lisher. Landscapes was conceived by Richard Purslow, founder of the Windgather Press, and Richard Muir, the founding editor from whom Dave Austin and Paul Stamper took over. In 2007 Windgather was bought by Oxbow, the Oxford-based publisher, with which we spent several happy years, towards the end of the associ- ation starting the move to online publication alongside hard copy. Oxbow was then acquired by the American publishing house Casemate, but in 2012 Landscapes was licenced, and later sold, to Maney, the Leeds-based publisher of so many notable academic journals. And now, in the ever-faster reconfiguration and consolidation of academic journal publishing, Maney has been bought by Taylor & Francis, with its even larger list of globally-distributed academic journals. While such changes are probably irrelevant to subscribers and readers, each publisher has brought new personnel and new systems for the editors to deal