With state and university budget concerns I’ve been looking for efficient ways to lower the publicity budget. Cutting review copies of backlist titles sent overseas to near zero was an easy place to start. Earlier […]
Fungi
The new issue of Fungi magazine enthusiastically recommends Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide. Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States should be required […]
Controversial summer reading
Bookslut points to a story on a Chicago area school that was pressured by parents to remove a book from the school’s reading list. We had a bit of that […]
Appalachia, Argentina, same diff
Good to finally see our ex-governor one-upped in the news cycle by another state’s current governor. […]
Style points, full circle
I heard this week that a well-known monthly periodical is planning to run a short excerpt from our forthcoming book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews. Previous posts may provide clues […]
CHE’s AAUP report
Here is yesterday’s report on the AAUP annual meeting from the Chronicle of Higher Education. One indication that university-press publishing has life in it yet: Many more presses have moved […]
$25 per review
I knew that my budget was absent an important line item all of these years. Inside Higher Ed shows me what I’ve been missing. (Hmm, this story reminds me of another recent […]
Betsy Hearne on Chicago Public Radio
Betsy Hearne, co-editor of A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women’s Lives, was interviewed by Alison Cuddy on Chicago Public Radio’s 848 morning program. […]
AAUP recap
Inside Higher Ed covers the recent AAUP meeting in Philadelphia. If the evolution from print to online poses one set of challenges, the sagging budgets of colleges pose another. University […]
A random walk down university press row
-Indiana University Press blog announces an electronic content initiative. -Duke University Press blog encourages readers to follow the recent advice of Inside Higher Ed. -Princeton University Press blog spreads the fertilizer […]
Twitter vs. Blogs
I’ve been reading the responses to Scott McLemee’s Twitter piece at Inside Higher Ed. Malcolm L. Campbell comments: I can understand why a university press blog would read like a string of press releases […]
Twitter ed
Scott McLemee investigates Twitter use at university presses. […]