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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
Digital “Tear” Sheets by Denise
My first digital tear-sheet arrived today, attached to the email below. (I’ve removed identifying information to protect the sender. No subject line appeared.) Tear-sheets are pages of advertising torn out […]
Word Cloud
So I saw this book publisher’s manifesto as a cool word cloud at The Digitalist and decided to make a wordle from our mission statement. Here it is in full […]
Promotional trailers for university press books?
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Nina Ayoub queried 25 university press publicists about the use of video trailers to promote books. The results (subscription required) are here. Note: I was included in the survey but […]
AAUP report, Montreal
Scott McLemee, writing in Inside Higher Ed, has a wrap up of last week’s Association of American University Presses annual meeting in Montreal. “Over the past few years, a certain boilerplate rhetoric […]
The Chicago Tribune losing book coverage?
PW Daily reports that the Chicago Tribune may further reduce its pages dedicated to book coverage. This brought to mind a Slate story from early 2007 on newspaper profits. […]
Bees: the original social networkers?
Let accidents happen and be more like bees, according to The Digitalist: [H]uman teams are inherently weak but . . . nature’s teams (bumble bees, termites etc) display characteristics that […]