Today’s Inside Higher Ed reports on the grand jury indictment of Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist who is accused of illegally using an MIT guest account […]
Category: all things digital
E-book rentals from University Presses
Inside Higher Ed reported today on how some university presses are incorporating e-book rentals into marketing plans. Rental options might not catalyze a full-fledged e-book boom, press officials say. But they might […]
iTunes: 33% of music market
I’ve been carrying the May 14, 2011, Billboard magazine around with me since one of my Journals colleagues put it in my mailbox. I’m convinced that it somehow tells the future of […]
The Washington Post on DRM-free e-books
The April 8, 2011, issue of The Washington Post includes Rob Pegoraro’s Fast Forward column on the virtues of DRM-free books. The e-book business seems determined to repeat the early mistakes […]
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The University of Illinois Press is in the early stages of a website overhaul and is seeking feedback from customers and colleagues. Please click here to take the short, quick online survey. […]
PME + UPeC = UPCC
Project Muse announced today that its Project Muse Editions e-books program is teaming up with the University Press e-book Consortium to become the University Press Content Consortium. “This is a great moment,” […]
Blogging by Middle-aged Cat Lovers and More!
For readers 17 or younger (if we have any): RT @slate: RT @nytimes: kidz diss blogs 4 #fb and #twitter http://slate.me/g0nTzG For those between the ages of 34 and 73: So apparently […]
UIP to participate in new Project MUSE e-book platform
Project MUSE, a distributor of electronic journal content, will launch Project MUSE Editions in 2011 to sell digital monographs published by academic presses. From the press release: Project MUSE, a leading provider of […]
Help. Zero degrees of separation.
(Image above is a Twitter template available to University units.) As part of my continuing education as a publicist for the Press, I attended a session on campus yesterday titled […]
Rice University’s press to close
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Rice University’s press, which became all-digital four years ago, will close in September. The move ends a high-profile experiment in digital university-press publishing. […]
“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues
Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday. As a […]
E-galleys available via NetGalley
We’re pleased to announce that six forthcoming titles from our Fall 2010 catalog are available in e-galley form from NetGalley. Reviewers, librarians, bookstores, and educators can get an early look […]