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March 9, 2009

A random walk down university press row

publishing

-UNC Press Blog is following American Idol‘s final 13. -Duke University Press Blog observes Barbie’s 50th birthday. -Neither blog mentions either of these numbers: 79-71. -Penn State University Press Blog compares the Kindle to […]

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March 9, 2009 (March 9, 2009)

Google Alert (in 36 Languages)

all things digital publishing

This New York Times article explains pretty clearly the lengths to which Google is going to alert the world’s authors of the terms of its book settlement. So far, more […]

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March 6, 2009

What about those hotels?

labor history

Hey, The Samuel Gompers Papers received a mention in a Washington Times story on the AFL-CIO conference in Miami. […]

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March 4, 2009 (March 4, 2009)

The TLS on the joy of soy

food reviews

The World of Soy, edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz, is the subject of a long and favorable review in the new issue of The Times Literary […]

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March 3, 2009

Broven has his MOJO workin’

music reviews

Good reviews continue to flow in for John Broven’s book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers. Following the enthusiastic notices from Publishers Weekly and […]

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March 2, 2009 (March 2, 2009)

“Stolen Bases” author in The New York Times

author commentary sports history women's history

Jennifer Ring, author of the new book Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball, is quoted in the March 1, 2009, issue of The New York Times in an […]

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March 2, 2009 (March 2, 2009)

All it took was a phone call

publishing

For almost three years now I’ve been confused by the method of communication used by a popular online-only review publication. To request a review copy, or alert me to a published […]

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February 27, 2009 (February 27, 2009)

Farewell, Susie

publishing

After 30 years of service to the University of Illinois, Assistant Sales Manager Susie Dueringer is retiring from the Press. Susie has helped keep the Press functioning in many different ways, […]

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February 26, 2009 (February 26, 2009)

Starring Ronell by Willis Regier

film new books

The debut of Examined Life gives Avital Ronell a celebrity that will amaze her, please her, and puzzle her, all at once. Choosing Avital as one of the principals in the […]

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February 26, 2009 (February 26, 2009)

Cafe Society in the Night Lights

music

David Brent Johnson posts an article that he wrote in 2000 about the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit” in advance of his radio interview this weekend on WFIU with Terry Trilling-Josephson, […]

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February 26, 2009 (February 26, 2009)

Style points

publishing

The new Harper’s Magazine arrived yesterday with a cover story (subscription required) titled “The Last Book Party.”  Yes, it’s another article on the death of publishing. Or, I think it is. I […]

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February 25, 2009 (February 25, 2009)

The Atlantic on Guitar Hero

miscellaneous

James Parker pens an article for The Atlantic that I’ve been waiting to read for over a year.  To a senescent music industry, this “downloadable content” has worked like Ponce […]

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