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 […]
Category: publishing
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 […]
PW reports author sues booksellers for selling his books
PW Daily reports on a uniquely difficult situation for some booksellers. […]
E-book distribution, plus comments
On The New York Times online Technology page, David Pogue relays his experience releasing books in electronic form. Many reader comments follow. “Twice in my career, ‘blind’ people e-mailed me, requesting […]
Microsoft to shut down Live Search Books
PW Daily reports that Microsoft is ending its Live Search Books program. “Microsoft will be providing publishers with digital copies of their scanned books, and is working with Ingram Digital, […]