Authors, please let me know if my “your book is here” correspondences resemble the following, from the New Yorker: If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your […]
Category: publishing
The $11,000 review copy
Book bloggers, beware of reviewing the books that I send you for free. Via Galley Cat: Today the Federal Trade Commission revised their “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials,” urging […]
The Art of Yes: On Will Powers
My friend and former colleague Will Powers died suddenly in August. He was the design and production manager par excellence at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. We’ve seen copious tributes […]
Controversial covers
Webdesigner Depot features the Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Time. […]
Change at Northwestern
Inside Higher Ed reports that the search for a new director will continue at Northwestern University Press but a key journal will move online. Beginning next year, the university announced, the […]
New model$ in publishing
Inside Higher Ed reports today that “five leading universities announced a new ‘Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity’ in which they have pledged to develop systems to pay open access […]
University Press Book, Jacket, & Journal Show
The University of Illinois Press is hosting the 2009 Book, Jacket, & Journal Show of the Association of American University Presses between Monday, September 21, and Friday, October 2. 50 books and 35 […]
Philadelphia Public Libraries to close
The Free Library of Philadelphia has posted a notice on its site announcing the permanent closing of the central library and all branch libraries on October 2. “We deeply regret […]
View from the UK
The Guardian explains the Google digital library settlement. […]
$526 per page
Inside Higher Ed reports on a recently released paper that anazlyed the cost of printing humanities and social science journals. The analysis of the eight journals was conducted to help […]
Chang vs. Yang
In April we published Doris T. Chang’s book Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, which featured this beautiful cover. On August 4, 2009 Random House published Xianhui Yang’s Woman from Shanghai: […]
Is the peer review process broken?
Daniel J. Myers expresses concern in the The Chronicle of Higher Education about his popularity as a peer reviewer. In the past month, I have been asked to review not one […]