Eleven editors and directors, including UIP’s own Joan Catapano, share their perspectives on academic publishing with the Chronicle of Higher Education. […]
Category: publishing
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. […]
E-selfpublish
Sunday’s New York Times included a story on Scribd’s new electronic publishing program. (via Shelf Awareness) […]
Literary journal concerns
Inside Higher Ed reports that Middlebury College is planning to end the subsidy it provides to the New England Review. […]
A few more animals escape the barn
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 […]
Columbia closes warehouse
Shelf Awareness reports that Columbia University Press orders will now be fulfilled by Perseus. […]
LSU Press threatened
Inside Higher Ed reports that LSU Press’s future is in doubt. […]
E-textbooks
Inside Higher Ed reports on the new Kindle designed for e-textbook use. […]
Dalkey on the move
PW reports that our friends at Dalkey have a new distribution agreement with W.W. Norton. […]