PW Daily reports this morning that Sports Publishing LLC, based in our hometown, has had financial difficulties lately and is being sold to a Chicago company. […]
Category: publishing
Reduction in university press textbook sales
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this morning that some in the university press community are concerned about a recent downward trend in textbook sales. “‘I am hearing more and more complaints […]
Ithaka academic library survey
Last week’s Library Journal Academic Newswire reported the recently released results of Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education. “Faculty researchers increasingly prefer electronic resources, and most […]
Diversify and conquer
Bookseller.com reported this morning on Penguin’s new business venture: “Penguin is launching a dating website aimed at book readers in conjunction with online dating giant Match.com. The service goes live […]
Free UIP books
We’re giving away free copies of Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers and Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline as part of LibraryThing’s early reviewer […]
Could Iron Man Handle Copyright?
Here’s Heather on creative communication strategies: We journals production editors have noticed how hard it can be to get important information, resources, and instructions to the busy editors and contributors […]
Green Publishing to the Max
In the August 15 Chronicle of Higher Education, we discover that Routledge was really into recycling. Now they’re really into dancing, rhetorically speaking. Imagine cracking open a new book and finding […]
Authors and Book Covers, or You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Today Breanne opens the Pandora’s box known as Book Cover Design. Before a manuscript enters the copyediting queue, I’ll ask authors for their cover art suggestions. While some authors prefer […]
Who is up for a UIP radio station?
PW Daily reports this morning that some trade publishers are setting up their own “radio stations” at BlogTalkRadio.com. “HarperCollins and the Hachette Book Group are the latest publishers to set […]
UIP 90th anniversary video
In celebration of the University of Illinois Press’s 90th anniversary, VideoWorks at the University of Illinois produced a 5:00 minute video that traces the history and accomplishments of our Press. Updated August 5, 2008: The […]
Raised eyebrows
Tony’s a bit vulgar at the Penn State University Press blog. […]
Wait, I didn’t know I was opening for Jethro Tull
PW Daily’s Book Maven blog points the way to the recent essay in the New York Times Book Review on book tours and speakers bureaus. “In recent years, a growing number of […]