The Unshelved comic has posted its new BookExpo edition featuring “frank feedback for publishers from librarians, booksellers, and readers.” My favorites: -“Put dust jackets on library-bound books.” -“In the book, tell us […]
Category: publishing
A random walk down university press row
-A contributor to the Penn State University Press Blog relates a personal story about the fallout of selling a lesbian themed book to a nine year old. -UNC Press Blog […]
Publicists vs. reviewers?
Thanks to my colleague Lisa S. for pointing me to the “What book publicists need to know about reviewers” piece on The Book Publicity Blog. So far so good. However, it […]
Down the Youtube
There has been a lot of hand wringing lately about the financial future of print publishing. Slate looks at the current economic outlook of the leaders of Web 2.0. […]
Amazon’s sales glitch
Amazon has fixed its problem (not) ranking gay and lesbian themed books. […]
The bookless library?
The April 3, 2009, edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education features a piece on tensions involved in the uncertain digital future. […]
The hidden revolution in scholarly publishing
Scott McLemee’s column in Inside Higher Ed explores the topic of digital publishing. The growing importance of digital publishing will not mean a sacrifice of one mode of attention for the […]
Google Books Settlement to be challenged
Google’s inclusion of millions of orphan works in their big scanning project–and their plan to profit from these still-copyrighted, unclaimed works–was a hot topic at the settlement symposium sponsored by […]
Upheaval at New Mexico
Yesterday a colleague forwarded me a University of New Mexico Press press release that was making the rounds. It was quite the bombshell. The Chronicle of Higher Education site has […]
How will the Kindle change MY family’s reading habits?
Jacob Weisberg wrote a column in Slate this week titled “Book End: How the Kindle will change the world.” I continue to think about how my family would incorporate a Kindle. […]
Pirates!
E-book pirates, that is. NPR’s All Things Considered reports on e-book piracy and publishers’ efforts to use digital rights management (or “DRM” if you’re hip) to protect their titles against […]
University of Michigan Press going digital
Inside Higher Ed reports today that the University of Michigan Press is changing to a digital monograph model. Within two years, press officials expect well over 50 of the 60-plus monographs […]