Tools of Change for Publishing has posted Jason Epstein’s keynote address given at the recent TOC conference. I don’t have to tell anyone here that we are at the end of the […]
Category: publishing
Princeton’s problems with pirates
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning on Princeton University Press’s recent experience tracking pirated copies of its books. For several months, Princeton had a staffer focused on identifying piracy sites […]
A random walk down university press row
-UNC Press Blog lets a cat post something to its site. -Indiana University Press blog types the praises of Helvetica. -Penn State University Press blog shares a personal John Updike story and announces […]
Is it an audiobook?
Yahoo! reports that there could be legal concerns over a feature on the new Kindle. One small, experimental feature in the device is already causing a minor uproar. Specifically: The Kindle 2’s […]
Changes coming to Book Expo
Publishers Weekly reports that changes are coming to BEA. Future shows through 2012 will be in New York and held Tuesday-Thursday, instead of Thursday-Sunday. There is still no agreed upon general public […]
William Ayers Contested
Even if Illinois State Senator Larry Bomke has his way, University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers has a nice two-book deal with Teachers College Press in hand. […]
More university press news
The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed a variety of university press staff for its latest assessment of academic publishing. Low sales, high numbers of books returned, operating subsidies threatened by state and […]
Quote of the day
“Either university presses will embrace new technology and offer scholarly content in new forms to researchers and under new business models, or they will follow the music industry and spend […]
More experts needed
The daily e-mails seeking experts for future news stories keep coming. My current favorites: -Bars in NYC with Ms. Pac-Man game –pet hypnotist –Reality Stars Who Love Baseball –business blogging disasters? […]
Layoffs at Oxford University Press
Publishers Weekly reports that Oxford University Press is cutting 60 positions in its U.S. offices. OUP spokesperson Christian Purdy said besides shedding jobs, the press was not planning any dramatic […]
University press sales report
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today on the most recent sales survey conducted by the Association of American University Presses. How badly has the recession hit university presses? In a […]
Three university presses share grant from Mellon Foundation for book series in folklore
The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in collaboration with the American Folklore Society, have been awarded a grant from the […]