Thanks to Tony over at the Penn State Press blog for bringing this video, apparently from a Dorling Kindersley sales conference, to my attention. Perfect food for thought late on a Friday afternoon […]
Category: publishing
“The last song played was provided for free by the record company, which I also met for lunch…”
In October of 2009 I linked to a Galley Cat story about a new FTC rule that required book bloggers to disclose that reviewed books were provided for free by a publisher. In […]
A disincentive for course adoptions?
Soon after we publish a new edited volume we send a message to the book’s editors and contributors thanking them for their work and encouraging them to adopt the book for […]
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 […]
One copy for the whole class
Inside Higher Ed reports today on a copyright case at UCLA. The school offers password protected access to assigned films for students to view outside the classroom on their personal computers. […]
Intern reporters
Should journalism schools provide free labor to local newspapers? Inside Higher Ed examines the pros and cons. […]
Chicago Manual of Style online forum
Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of Chicago Press has launched an online forum for discussion about (or is it “of”?) The Chicago Manual of Style (and other matters). “People pressed […]
Latest chatter
A roundup of recent publishing news: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the growth of open access scholarly journals and publisher efforts to stop book piracy, The Electronic Frontier Foundation […]
Back to the Future
On February 15, 2010, The Scholarly Kitchen blog reported on the newly released UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report. 728 pages! The reoccurring theme in the report is that academia is a […]
Publicist pet peeve
I just read a White Paper distributed by our media guide provider, which includes, “Journalists’ top pet peeves about PR professionals.” The White Paper doesn’t provide the pet peeves in list form […]
University of Illinois Press fun fact
Loyal readers of the back of our book jackets will soon notice that we have added “Springfield” to the current campus locations of “Urbana and Chicago” that are represented under our name […]
Selling exam copies for profit
Professor Hacker analyzes how to ethically dispose of review copies. Some highlights: If you’ve taught for even one semester, especially if you decide what textbook to use in your class, […]