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, […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
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 […]
Starting to lay the groundwork for a different future
An NPR piece from July 8, 2010, Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries, continues the e-book conversation. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most […]
What is a publication date?
The week that I started at the Press a new book arrived from the printer. It was placed on my desk with the expectation that I would assign it a “publication […]
Publishing secrets revealed!
What does it take to get an article published in a scholarly journal? Sound, original scholarship, you say? That’s important, but what about presentation? How do you go about interesting […]
Open source textbooks at U of I?
The local newspaper, The News-Gazette, has a feature story this morning on the University’s pursuit of an open source textbook model. The leader of the initiative, Charles Evans, is considering […]