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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
It’s personal
Galleycat covers the story of a book review, an unhappy author, and the author’s quest to fight the power. […]
The no pile
With state and university budget concerns I’ve been looking for efficient ways to lower the publicity budget. Cutting review copies of backlist titles sent overseas to near zero was an easy place to start. Earlier […]
CHE’s AAUP report
Here is yesterday’s report on the AAUP annual meeting from the Chronicle of Higher Education. One indication that university-press publishing has life in it yet: Many more presses have moved […]
$25 per review
I knew that my budget was absent an important line item all of these years. Inside Higher Ed shows me what I’ve been missing. (Hmm, this story reminds me of another recent […]
AAUP recap
Inside Higher Ed covers the recent AAUP meeting in Philadelphia. If the evolution from print to online poses one set of challenges, the sagging budgets of colleges pose another. University […]
A random walk down university press row
-Indiana University Press blog announces an electronic content initiative. -Duke University Press blog encourages readers to follow the recent advice of Inside Higher Ed. -Princeton University Press blog spreads the fertilizer […]