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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
PW & LJ going away?
E-Reads reported yesterday that Reed Business Information is looking to sell Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. What if there isn’t a buyer? […]
Twice-told tales or, the dangers of selling film rights
The New York Times covers the brouhaha over a new history of Jones County, Mississippi, during the Civil War. Where? you may ask. Not to worry: there are at least two […]