Inside Higher Ed reports today on Northwest Missouri State University’s move to be an e-book only school. “Northwest Missouri has long bought textbooks on its students’ behalf, renting them in […]
Category: publishing
“The dream”
We’ve all had “the dream,” right? We arrive at the classroom to take final exams but haven’t yet studied for the test. At some point during my time in the music business this […]
Follow the links home
A January 8 post on Bookslut points to VQR‘s top 10 poetry books of 2008, which led me to a comment below that refers to this ZYZZYVASPEAKS post, which mentions our own […]
We’re cutting back on our Four Seasons lunches
Today’s Shelf Awareness newsletter points to a New York Times piece on the new austerity in book publishing. “Venerable houses including HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Group, Random House and Simon […]
Layoffs at SUNY Press
Inside Higher Ed refers readers to a story in The Albany Times Union on layoffs at SUNY Press. “The cuts, made earlier this month, represented nearly 15 percent of what […]
Survivor Scholarly Publishing
The Chronicle highlights the growing number of campus support staff who advise faculty on best practices in getting from manuscript to book. Surely some will miss out on the adventure of the old days: “We’ll drop you […]
Top designs of 2008
A December 3rd Bookslut post links to The Book Design Review‘s favorite covers of 2008. […]
“Information needs to be shared, not billed”
The December 1, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly includes an interesting Soapbox column on the exchange of information between booksellers and publishers/distributors. “So the current situation is something like this: essential […]
Pay for books? Seriously?
One of the things I love about living in Champaign-Urbana is the prominence of books in our culture. In addition to the U of I libraries, we have three public […]
DigiPubliLibrariNation
In the November 21 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard discusses the emerging role of the scholarly communications specialist on campus. More institutions are creating or beefing up […]
Just another autumn day at our nation’s Capitol
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A random walk down university press row
-Penn State U. Press has added new preview and sales services to its website. -Oxford University Press Blog discusses slow blogging. -Harvard University Press blog tells us how to say goodbye in […]