Information about Cambridge University Press

The headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). It published its first book in 1584, and has published at least one book every year since then, making it the oldest publishing and printing house in the world. It is both an academic and educational publishing house, a printing factory, and the printer for official documents for the University of Cambridge. Authors published by Cambridge have included John Milton, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, Brian J. Ford and Stephen Hawking. CUP was first exempted from UK Corporation Tax in 1976 (for history, see [1]

The Press is now a global organisation with a regional structure operating in the Americas, in UK/Europe/Middle-East/Africa, and in Asia-Pacific. Headquartered in Cambridge UK, the company has warehousing centres in Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, São Paulo and Singapore, with offices and agents in many other countries. Its publishing output includes major ELT courses; tertiary textbooks and monographs; scientific and medical reference; professional lists in law, management and engineering; educational coursebooks; and e-learning materials for schools via the Cambridge-Hitachi joint venture. Its publications are aimed at markets worldwide, at all levels from primary school to postgraduate and professional. The Press also publishes Bibles, prayer books, and some 200 academic journals. It has 25,000 authors in 116 countries and issues between 1,500 and 2,000 new titles a year.

Controversy over the publication Alms for Jihad

Recently, Cambridge University Press has been involved in a controversy as a result of its decision to destroy all remaining copies of its 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, by Burr and Collins, as part of a settlement of lawsuit brought by Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz. Cambridge's justification of its actions may be read at [2] Critics concerned about freedom of speech and the strictness of English libel laws have made their case at e.g. [3] and [4] Additional criticism can be found at [5] . The American Library Association issued a recommendation to libraries still holding Alms for Jihad: "Given the intense interest in the book, and the desire of readers to learn about the controversy first hand, we recommend that U.S. libraries keep the book available for their users." According to an article in the October 7, 2007, New York Times Book Review, an American Congressman, Frank R. Wolf, described Cambridge's settlement as "basically a book burning." Neither of the authors, J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins, joined the apology. Both American writers and U.S. citizens, they stand by their scholarship. "We refused to be a party to the settlement," says Collins, a professor emeritus of history at the University of California-Santa Barbara. "I'm not going to recant on something just from the threat of a billionaire Saudi sheikh." What's more, he adds, "I think I'm a damn good historian."

References and further reading

David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press, 3 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992-2004)

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Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers.
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For the ship of the same name, see .

A Royal Charter is a charter granted by the Sovereign on the advice of the privy council, to legitimize an incorporated body, such as a city, company, university or such.
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Henry VIII
King of England, King of Ireland, Prince of Wales

Reign 22 April1509 – 28 January1547
Coronation 24 June 1509
Born 28 May 1491
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In the United Kingdom, the privileged presses are Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. They are called this because, under letters patent issued by the Crown defining their charters, only they have the right to print and publish the Book of Common Prayer and the
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Oxford University Press (OUP) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press.
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University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious universities.
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John Milton

Born: November 9 1608
Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England
Died: November 8 1674 (aged 67)
Bunhill, London, England
Occupation: Poet, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant
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William Harvey (April 1, 1578 – June 3, 1657) was an English medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.
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Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton at 46 in
Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait
Born 4 January 1643 [OS: 25 December 1642]
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Brian J. Ford (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire ^[1]) is an independent research biologist^[1], author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 years.
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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking
Born January 8 1942 (age 65)
Oxford, England
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Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America^[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.
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"Dieu et mon droit" ^[2] (French)
"God and my right"
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Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.4% of its land area) and, with almost 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population.
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Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages.
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Location of Melbourne in Australia

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Cape Town
Kaapstad, iKapa
Panorama of the Cape Town city bowl from the Waterfront to Table Mountain

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Cambridge University Press

Controversy over the publication Alms for Jihad

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