From now until June 30th we are lowering the eBook list price of four titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Link to the buy options below. Twentieth Century Drifter: The […]
Category: eBooks
An Open Letter to America’s Publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan
An Open Letter to America’s Publishers from ALA President Maureen Sullivan We librarians cannot stand by and do nothing while some publishers deepen the digital divide. We cannot wait passively […]
Chip Kidd on TED Talks
Chip Kidd, a book designer for Alfred A. Knopf, gives a wonderful talk about the business. (Follow the talk all the way to the end for a graphic comparison between […]
NYT on the Death of the Bookstore
This morning’s New York Times has sort of a scattered article on the prospects of a post-bookstore environment for readers and publishers. Just as indie book stores were decimated by […]
iBooks and Textbooks
Apple released a new version of iBooks today and, as Dan Nosowitz at Popular Science notes, it’s designed to replace the textbook with the iPad: “The new version of iBooks […]
An Alternate Universe of E-publishing
Last week, Physorg presented details about a breakthrough at our very own Research I university here in Urbana-Champaign: a ball-point pen that can draw working circuits on standard paper. What’s […]
Page, Carton, Panel, Mat
Last week, Lisa Bayer passed along a link to a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Tushar Rae about the issue of citation standards for e-books: since e-text reflows […]
Book vs. Cloud
About the book again: I hardly ever keep books around unless I really plan to read or reread them, and I admit I don’t entirely understand the collector mentality. Books […]
Finally! An answer to the e-book!
Those of you who are worried about the future of print publishing–well, stop! I found, via the awesome MobyLives blog, the perfect solution to those who say you can’t travel […]
Run for your lives! eBooks are the future (and the now)!
Today I attended a UIP brown bag lunch about social media sites and how we can use these sites to better promote UIP and its books and journals (and, in […]