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Category: publishing
“Black books don’t sell”
Bookslut points to an author who is not pleased with the cover for a U.S. edition of her latest book. […]
Money for nothing and clicks for free
After the past year especially, scholarly publishers are looking for new models that work in an age of digital downloadable segmentable content and declining sales and institutional support. Over ten […]
Kindle Swindle?
New York Times tech guru David Pogue reports on the case of the disappearing Kindle ebooks. This morning, Amazon.com stealthily crept into Kindle owners’ digital libraries and absconded with their […]
Glass half full
One of our sales reps, John Mesjak, got up on the right side of the bed today. When I wake up in the morning, and make my way to the desk […]
Napstered?
Jack Shafer wrote a column for Slate about e-books, publishers, pricing, and the lessons of Napster. It doesn’t make me a defender of illegal file-sharing to say that the music industry […]
ALA vs. BEA
The Marketing department took a daytrip to Chicago earlier this week to check out the exhibits floor at the ALA annual meeting. Though there were some giveaways, I was surprised that […]
Amazon and the future of publishing
Fast Company has a long article on Amazon, distribution, and the future of publishing. Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to […]
Revisiting some older stories
Two news stories, previously reported (repeated) here, caught my attention this morning: 1. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that LSU Press will not close as feared. 2. Shelf Awareness has news […]
The Netflix of college textbooks
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on Chegg. Textbooks are mailed to students for a 125-day period, with the option to purchase the book. Comparing the amount spent on rentals […]
Cutting out the middleman
The Writers’ Union of Canada’s chairwoman of the contracts committee suggests in The Globe & Mail that authors bypass publishers and embrace the e-book. Truly, a revolution in publishing has […]
More advice for UPs
The director of University of Akron Press has some advice for university presses in this morning’s Inside Higher Ed. University presses must become part of the new information infrastructure of […]