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77active members, book reviewing is an opportunity to make a small, butperhaps frequent contribution to the disciplinary community.According to C, E, and L, junior scholars are usually much more willing to reviewa book than a senior scholar. For a junior scholar, a BR can mean a way to participate inthe disciplinary debate ix with a less demanding task than, for example, a research article,which requires more time for reading and research procedures.As recently pointed out by Wiley (1993), the editors emphasize that BRs have an‘unremarkable’ character. Experienced and very active scholars are interested in theprojection that a publication can bring and a BR is not important for enlarging acurriculum vitae (CV) or for getting career promotion:[E]Usually both senior and junior scholars are asked to review books. It is probablyeasier to get a junior person than a senior person. ...usually people refuse to writebook reviews because they don’t count very much for tenure... Junior scholarssee this as an opportunity to get their name in print. A senior person has oftenbeen in print a lot and the novelty of that is worn off. Senior persons have oftengot more administrative duties, too, and therefore less time, but we are able to getsenior people, too. Generally the junior person has not done this before or hasdone infrequently and likes the idea of trying his hand on it.[L]Senior scholars in the field are less likely to do reviews. They are usually toobusy to write texts that do not count for much in their careers and therefore areless inclined to do them. Junior scholars with no/few publications are much moreinterested in getting something on their CVs.[C]