Inside Higher Ed reports today that our university is boycotting institutional use of the Kindle. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is joining Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin […]
Category: all things digital
Amazon woos literary agents
Crain’s New York Business reports that Amazon recently hosted a group of literary agents to explain how the online behemoth doesn’t plan to destroy the publishing world. According to one participant, the aim […]
Utah State University Press’s Open Access
Inside Higher Ed reports today that Utah State University Press will pursue a new publishing model: This week comes news that the press will survive — in part by embracing a […]
The University of Illinois Press signs agreement with JSTOR
October 27, 2009 — Champaign, IL and New York, NY —The University of Illinois Press, the not-for-profit publishing division of the University of Illinois, and JSTOR, the preservation archive and […]
MPublishing Cometh
The University of Michigan Library announces MPublishing, the new uber-publishing initiative that includes the University of Michigan Press alongside other campus units devoted to scholarly communication. The focus of MPublishing will be […]
Lending e-books
The New York Times reports how libraries are lending e-books: Most digital books in libraries are treated like printed ones: only one borrower can check out an e-book at a time, […]
Change at Northwestern
Inside Higher Ed reports that the search for a new director will continue at Northwestern University Press but a key journal will move online. Beginning next year, the university announced, the […]
View from the UK
The Guardian explains the Google digital library settlement. […]
The Power of Google
The Wired Campus reports on Google’s announcement that it will allow authors and publishers to use Google Books as a distribution channel for books that they license through Creative Commons. […]
The Power of Twitter
Michael Clarke at The Scholarly Kitchen explains the differences between Twitter and other social networks, analyzing the advantages of Twitter for sharing your message (the aim of scholarly communicators everywhere). […]
I now pronounce you monetized: forever
Makes perfect business sense. Rather than demand that the video featuring his song “Forever” be removed from YouTube owing to infringement, Chris Brown’s label recognized the viral potential by adding click-to-buy […]
Money for nothing and clicks for free
After the past year especially, scholarly publishers are looking for new models that work in an age of digital downloadable segmentable content and declining sales and institutional support. Over ten […]