Scott McLemee, writing in Inside Higher Ed, has a wrap up of last week’s Association of American University Presses annual meeting in Montreal.

“Over the past few years, a certain boilerplate rhetoric has emerged about the need for university presses boldly to face the challenges of the information technology — the better to seize the exciting new opportunities thus created, yadda yadda yadda. But beneath all the digital platitudes, one detects a growing frustration.”