Publishing at the pace of the work

Oracle has no publishing calendar.

Not because we lack ideas.

Because deadlines should never become the editor.

Some subjects ask for months.

Others require years.

A publication is finished when the research has settled, the editing has become invisible, and every page earns its place.

Readers wait remarkably patiently for work created with care.

They rarely return to work published before it was ready.

Our responsibility is not to publish often.

It is to publish well.

Every volume leaves the house only when it can stand comfortably beside the one before it.

That is the pace we intend to keep.