Today’s The New York Times has a fresh story on book piracy. Until recently, publishers believed books were relatively safe from piracy because it was so labor-intensive to scan each page to convert […]
~Australas. J. Bone Jt. Med.
The story of academic research giant Elsevier producing a fake research journal (the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine) to promote drugs for the Merck corporation has been making […]
Columbia closes warehouse
Shelf Awareness reports that Columbia University Press orders will now be fulfilled by Perseus. […]
LSU Press threatened
Inside Higher Ed reports that LSU Press’s future is in doubt. […]
Summer is Coming by Joe McFarland
You get about a month. That’s as long as morel mushroom season lasts wherever you live in Illinois, starting from the very first morel somebody shouts they’ve found—the first morel […]
E-textbooks
Inside Higher Ed reports on the new Kindle designed for e-textbook use. […]
Mushroom hunting with Joe McFarland
Claudette Roulo went mushroom hunting with Joe McFarland, co-author of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. […]
Jennifer Ring at Book Soup
Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, will sign copies at Book Soup in West Hollywood on May 17 at 12:00 noon. […]
Mama PhD ponders her narrative compass
Inside Higher Ed‘s Mama PhD just finished reading Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trite’s new book A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives and considers her own bedrock stories. My own […]
Cheryl Ganz’s 3 minutes
The Washington Examiner spoke briefly with Cheryl Ganz, author of The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. […]
Dalkey on the move
PW reports that our friends at Dalkey have a new distribution agreement with W.W. Norton. […]
Roni, 71
Happy birthday Roni Stoneman. […]