A message on the AAUP listserve reports that Eastern Washington University Press will be closed. […]
Golf Digest reviews “Golf in America”
The current issue of Golf Digest includes George Kirsch’s Golf in America as one of six new notable books writing, “Kirsch traces golf’s path in the United States, hitting the high […]
E-selfpublish
Sunday’s New York Times included a story on Scribd’s new electronic publishing program. (via Shelf Awareness) […]
The University of Illinois Press at Printers Row
Though we’re still waiting for the final schedule for this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest on June 6-7 in Chicago, we know that the authors of eleven UIP books will be included on panels […]
Swine flu adds academic conference to its list of victims
Late last week we learned that the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, scheduled for May 21-24 in Tokyo, has been cancelled owing to concerns about […]
Trouble in the stacks
The Chronicle covers Ohio State’s conundrum over library space and digital collections. Tight space isn’t the only force at work. Researchers’ behavior is shifting away from print. “All the […]
Literary journal concerns
Inside Higher Ed reports that Middlebury College is planning to end the subsidy it provides to the New England Review. […]
Midland Authors award winner
Congratulations, John Hallwas. The Society Of Midland Authors has named Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers winner of its 2009 prize in the Biography category. […]
Lecherous Professor in the news
Monday’s edition of The Guardian features Billie Wright Dziech and Linda Weiner’s book The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus as the central player in a current Oxford controversy. […]
Prep
Every catalog season before my media trips I try to read as many of the trade titles, cover-to-cover, as possible. Though not a traditional trade title, Bob Ostertag’s forthcoming book Creative […]
A few more animals escape the barn
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 […]