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New Acquisitions Editor Daniel Nasset
The University of Illinois Press is pleased to introduce new acquisitions editor Daniel Nasset to the publishing community. Daniel has been an assistant acquisitions editor at Illinois since September 2009 […]
University of Illinois Press hosts AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
The University of Illinois Press will host the annual Book, Jacket and Journal Show, November 1-12. Sponsored by the Association of American University Presses, nearly 100 books and jackets—the best […]
Book Titles: being the correct and timely story of Illinois’ venerable University Press and the man of marketing who assisted it in the construction of its latest monograph moniker
During our Internal meeting today we discussed prospective titles and subtitles for two upcoming books. -Though not biographies, should we include names of the books’ main subjects in the titles? -For the […]
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 […]
The editorial/advertising divide
Yesterday I spent part of my workday sending unsolicited e-mail messages to individual book editors at daily newspapers. My goals were to: 1) alert them to the publication of a forthcoming book, […]
Huffington Post innovative university press
The University of Illinois Press was recognized by Huffington Post in the feature The 17 Most Innovative University Presses And the Books You Will Want From Them. Anis Shivani: For whatever shortsighted […]
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. […]
Farewell, Lisa by Jennifer Reichlin
On Thursday, August 12, Press staff and other guests said their fond farewells to CFO Lisa Emerson, who is off to new adventures after retiring at an impossibly early age. […]
The Black Elk-SUNY saga continues
Inside Higher Ed follows up the story from two years ago on SUNY Press’ acquisition of a University of Nebraska Press bestseller. Black Elk Speaks is the autobiography of a […]
“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 […]
Radius clause for Santa Claus?
I have been working lately on arranging book events for our forthcoming anthology Christmas in Illinois. Editor Jim Ballowe will travel across the state during October, November, and December to promote […]