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 […]
Category: publishing
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, […]
Textbook rental gains momentum
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the expansion of major college bookstores in the textbook rental market. Barnes and Noble, which operates 636 campus bookstores, announced yesterday that in light of […]
Sending David Beckham a copy of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
Among the many stories generated by the Tiger Woods debacle is this one from the Chronicle’s Tweed column. A book in the floorboard of the famously wrecked Escalade appears in a […]