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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
Twitter vs. Blogs
I’ve been reading the responses to Scott McLemee’s Twitter piece at Inside Higher Ed. Malcolm L. Campbell comments: I can understand why a university press blog would read like a string of press releases […]
Twitter ed
Scott McLemee investigates Twitter use at university presses. […]
On the future of scholarly publishing
Eleven editors and directors, including UIP’s own Joan Catapano, share their perspectives on academic publishing with the Chronicle of Higher Education. […]
The Hegel-Heidegger-Heisenberg circuit
Peter J. Dougherty, director of Princeton University Press, celebrates the original publication and continued printing of the University of Illinois Press’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication in his Chronicle of Higher Education piece […]
Inside Higher Ed surveys UPs on digital publishing
Inside Higher Ed‘s Scott McLemee made the rounds at BEA to investigate academic publishing’s e-books strategy. His report appears in today’s edition. Shifting to digital is not the quick, smooth, cost-free move […]
PW and jazz and what?
The May 11, 2009, issue of Publishers Weekly includes a “Soapbox” piece by a music professor who wrote a book on jazz music that he self-published. The story’s handle is, “Although […]
Eastern Washington University Press to shut down
A message on the AAUP listserve reports that Eastern Washington University Press will be closed. […]