One of our sales reps, John Mesjak, got up on the right side of the bed today. When I wake up in the morning, and make my way to the desk […]
Napstered?
Jack Shafer wrote a column for Slate about e-books, publishers, pricing, and the lessons of Napster. It doesn’t make me a defender of illegal file-sharing to say that the music industry […]
ALA vs. BEA
The Marketing department took a daytrip to Chicago earlier this week to check out the exhibits floor at the ALA annual meeting. Though there were some giveaways, I was surprised that […]
Still Human by Michael Oriard
The original edition of The End of Autumn came about when an editor at Doubleday saw a piece I had written for the New York Times about the suicide of […]
Richard Hughes vs. Newt Gingrich
In a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed column, Richard Hughes, author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God, takes on Newt Gingrich’s claims that the United States is a Christian nation. […]
Amazon and the future of publishing
Fast Company has a long article on Amazon, distribution, and the future of publishing. Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to […]
Science reviews “The World of Soy”
The July 10, 2009, edition of Science Magazine features a review of The World of Soy. Du Bois, Tan, and Mintz have done an excellent job combining a series of […]
Revisiting some older stories
Two news stories, previously reported (repeated) here, caught my attention this morning: 1. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that LSU Press will not close as feared. 2. Shelf Awareness has news […]
Richard Hughes in Church & State
Richard Hughes, author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, was interviewed for the cover story of Church & State‘s July/August issue. When these ‘Christian America’ guys […]
Avital Ronell’s eight seances by Diane Davis
Avital Ronell has just completed a series of eight “séances” or sessions for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where she engaged such artists and thinkers as Werner Herzog, Frédéric Boyer, […]
The Jews of Chicago in the Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post recently reviewed the new paperback edition of Irving Cutler’s The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. Chicago is a city with cold winters and hot summers. […]
Sarah, see the whole court
What’s been overlooked in the coverage of Sarah Palin’s recent announcement to resign the Alaskan governorship is her very poor basketball analogy. Let me go back to a comfortable analogy […]