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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
Kindleized!
Inside Higher Ed reports that a few new university press titles will be available soon via Kindle. […]
Publishing’s mating call?
Apparently the advance reading copies I send to reviewers have a value that I hadn’t considered. (PW Daily pointed the way to this New York Observer piece.) […]
When You’re Married to a Librarian
. . . you find out about blog posts like this. My favorite line: For as books move to the cloud, from digital bundles to network assets, we will not […]