Today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter includes a small news item on New York’s Comic Con: New York Comic Con, the East Coast’s largest comic, graphic novel and manga festival, […]
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Putting out a fire
In today’s Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter, editor John Mutter opens with a piece on Amazon’s new Fire tablet. Many in the book business worry about power becoming concentrated in […]
The rarest printing?
The Guardian observes the collector’s market for advance reading copies. Book collectors are a funny lot. Unlike readers, who are concerned with what’s inside the book, the true delight of any […]
E-Textbooks at Indiana
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus section published a column today on Indiana University’s experiment with E-Textbooks. Here’s how it works: Students in a select group of courses are required to […]
Why is a new university press hardcover $69.50?
This morning’s edition of Inside Higher Ed includes a blog contribution by Joshua Kim that questions the price of a recent hardcover book published by Temple University Press. Randy Martin’s […]
Accidental thief confesses
Our handwriting experts have been dispatched to Chicago… To Whom It May Concern: A note of apology — I accidentally picked up this book at a book fair in Chicago, and […]
For Sale: “Uncorrected Advance Proof Not for Resale”
One of our forthcoming books recently popped up on ebay. In mid-July, I shipped advance copies of Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe (September 2011) to […]
Michael, we have recommendations for you
A few weeks ago when Michael Charry’s new biography of George Szell was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, and Huffington Post on the same day, I checked […]
Pay over $100 for a web review?
A print publication recently e-mailed me with the offer of paying $100+ for an online review of one of our new books. The publication had requested the book from our catalog and […]
A new series: Dissident Feminisms
Series Editor: Piya Chatterjee, University of California, Riverside The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce a new series, Dissident Feminisms, which seeks new feminist writing that traverses the […]
E-book rentals from University Presses
Inside Higher Ed reported today on how some university presses are incorporating e-book rentals into marketing plans. Rental options might not catalyze a full-fledged e-book boom, press officials say. But they might […]
“Breaking News”
We had an author interview canceled today by WGN-TV due to “breaking news.” Our former governor just doesn’t know when to stop making my life difficult. […]