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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National Women’s Studies Association & University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2011 The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a new competition for the best dissertation or first […]
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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,” […]
Syracuse University Press pulls book, shocks author
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that Syracuse University Press has ceased publishing a title released last year because of defamation concerns. The press pulled the book after learning of legal threats […]
Tools of Change
Check out our Twitter feed from the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference. Samples: I’m loving Ron Charles’ positivity in the digital literary reviewing sesh. Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer indeed. […]
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 […]