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Category Archives: all things digital
For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of six Women’s History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America by Linda … Continue reading
Black History Month $2.99 e-book sale
in all things digital, black studies
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For the month of February we have lowered the e-book list price of four Black History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Sojourner Truth’s America by Margaret Washington Winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award … Continue reading
A Technology column in the January 27, 2013, edition of The New York Times featured Matthew Jockers’s forthcoming book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. ANY list of the leading novelists of the 19th century, writing in English, would almost … Continue reading
Why doesn’t my public library have more e-books?
in all things digital, publishing
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Forbes.com investigates the current e-book lending situation at public libraries in an article titled The Wrong War Over eBooks: Publishers vs. Libraries. The challenge to libraries is not insignificant. Four of the six publishers are not providing eBooks to libraries … Continue reading
Finding One’s Space in DH
in all things digital, literary studies
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Yesterday Lee Bessette posted about the benefits and pitfalls of doing and defining digital humanities (DH) in Inside Higher Ed’s Blog U: College Ready Writing, “Why I Support an Open Definition of DH“: “This is why I think the big … Continue reading
E-textbooks. Survey says…
in all things digital, publishing
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Inside Higher Ed reported this morning on a recent survey of iPad and e-textbook use by college students on four-year campuses. “But even as iPad adoption appears to have stagnated, e-textbooks show signs of finally gaining traction. Twenty percent of students … Continue reading
Peer Review No Longer in the Dark
in all things digital, conferences, journals, publishing, Uncategorized
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In today’s Inside Higher Ed, Scott Jaschik reported on sessions taking place at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting discussing the role of traditional blind peer review in scholarly publications in light of the ever-evolving digital landscape for current and … Continue reading
Zimmerman, Zinn, Zingg, and Zuberi
in all things digital, publishing
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Putting out a fire
in all things digital, publishing
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In today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter, editor John Mutter opens with a piece on Amazon’s new Fire tablet. Many in the book business worry about power becoming concentrated in the book world. Amazon likes to play rough: recently it … Continue reading
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus section published a column today on Indiana University’s experiment with E-Textbooks. Here’s how it works: Students in a select group of courses are required to pay a materials fee, which gets them access to the … Continue reading
