The Netflix of college textbooks
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on Chegg. Textbooks are mailed to students for a 125-day period, with the option to purchase the book. Comparing the amount spent on rentals […]
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Cutting out the middleman
The Writers’ Union of Canada’s chairwoman of the contracts committee suggests in The Globe & Mail that authors bypass publishers and embrace the e-book. Truly, a revolution in publishing has […]
Cafe Society on WBGO Journal
An interview with Terry Trilling-Josephson about her new book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People will air on WBGO Journal Friday, July 3, at 7:30 PM (eastern […]
Health Care, Then and Now by Winton U. Solberg
Good health care is essential, and Americans watch closely as President Obama and Congress struggle to determine how to deliver basic medical service to all Americans. It helps to put the […]
Win Illinois stuff over at Oronte Churm
Inside Higher Ed blogger and local UI personality Oronte Churm has launched perhaps the first ever “Southern Illinois Rocks” online contest in celebration of the publication of his novel, A […]
Biggers’s top 10 list for Obama
Jeff Biggers, author of In the Sierra Madre (and The United States of Appalachia), contributes a Top 10 list to the Huffington Post on President Obama and mountaintop coal removal. “Here’s the […]
June 30, farewell
Today the Marketing Department says goodbye to two long term staff members. Assistant Marketing Director Barbara Horne retires after 30 years at the U of I and Marketing Designer Nancy Lopeman is […]
The evolution of scholarly listservs
The Chronicle covers the ways in which academic e-mail lists like H-Net and others have changed to accommodate new directions in online communications. Web 2.0 keeps marching on. But now […]
Staley authors interview on NPR’s WILL
Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking, authors of the new book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, will be interviewed July 1st, 1:05-2:00 PM (Central), on Urbana’s NPR affiliate […]
More advice for UPs
The director of University of Akron Press has some advice for university presses in this morning’s Inside Higher Ed. University presses must become part of the new information infrastructure of […]
UIP Twitter feed
OK, you can follow the University of Illinois Press on Twitter. http://twitter.com/illinoispress […]
It’s personal
Galleycat covers the story of a book review, an unhappy author, and the author’s quest to fight the power. […]