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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
The New Yorker on University Press logos
The Book Bench column in The New Yorker online has a short feature, with graphics, on university press logos. The University of Illinois Press logo is above. […]
Heavy shelves
Scott McLemee, writing in today’s Inside Higher Ed, ruminates on personal and institutional book collections. A few months ago, I was happy to be able to acquire an obscure volume of […]
The Oprah question
Many, many authors have suggested that I send a review copy of his/her book to Oprah. I am 0-for-50 (or so) at this point. And though my batting average will […]
Star of stage & screen
If I had read the following media heat item from Shelf Awareness this morning before my meetings instead of tonight after my meetings, I would have known what to expect when I […]
Captain Kirk and the Split Infinitive
Salon reviews The Lexicographer’s Dilemma by Rutgers English professor Jack Lynch. Which brings us back to those split infinitives, the most famous of which is spoken by William Shatner in […]