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June 3, 2009 (June 3, 2009)

Inside Higher Ed surveys UPs on digital publishing

all things 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 […]

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May 21, 2009

PW and jazz and what?

publishing

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 […]

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May 20, 2009

Eastern Washington University Press to shut down

publishing

A message on the AAUP listserve reports that Eastern Washington University Press will be closed. […]

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May 19, 2009

E-selfpublish

publishing

Sunday’s New York Times included a story on Scribd’s new electronic publishing program. (via Shelf Awareness) […]

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May 14, 2009

Literary journal concerns

publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports that Middlebury College is planning to end the subsidy it provides to the New England Review. […]

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May 12, 2009

A few more animals escape the barn

publishing

Today’s The New York Times has a fresh story on book piracy.   Until recently, publishers believed books were relatively safe from piracy because it was so labor-intensive to scan each page to convert […]

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May 11, 2009

Columbia closes warehouse

publishing

Shelf Awareness reports that Columbia University Press orders will now be fulfilled by Perseus. […]

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May 8, 2009

LSU Press threatened

publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports that LSU Press’s future is in doubt. […]

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May 7, 2009

E-textbooks

publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports on the new Kindle designed for e-textbook use. […]

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May 5, 2009

Dalkey on the move

publishing

PW reports that our friends at Dalkey have a new distribution agreement with W.W. Norton. […]

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April 30, 2009

Newspaper advertising

publishing

This morning some communication bounced around internally regarding the possibility of an ad in a Chicago paper to be coordinated with an upcoming book fest. Perfect timing then to view this […]

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April 29, 2009 (April 29, 2009)

“The worst book about pop music I have ever read”

music publishing

When I see a newspaper headline like the one above my heart immediately sinks with the publicist’s fear that the book in question is one of our titles. Whew! Thankfully, the focus of Jeff […]

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