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 […]
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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 […]
LA Times losing book review section
PW Daily reported this morning that the Los Angeles Times is losing its standalone book section. “Nancy Sullivan, executive director of corporate communications at the paper, confirmed that the book […]
Free textbooks!
College students received much of the blame (or credit depending on your worldview) for starting the file-sharing tide that has fundamentally changed the music business. They’re back! The Boston Globe reports, “Faced with […]
University press book controversy
Inside Higher Ed has a piece this morning on SUNY Press taking over publication rights for Black Elk Speaks from University of Nebraska Press. “For most university presses, a book […]