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July 14, 2008 (July 18, 2008)

Beverly Lindsay interview

interviews

Hear Dr. Alvin Jones interview Beverly Lindsay about her new edited book Ralph Johnson Bunch: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate.   […]

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July 10, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

Digital “Tear” Sheets by Denise

publishing

My first digital tear-sheet arrived today, attached to the email below. (I’ve removed identifying information to protect the sender. No subject line appeared.) Tear-sheets are pages of advertising torn out […]

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July 10, 2008 (July 10, 2008)

Just Landed: Summer books

music new books women's history

A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith (July 21, 2008) –About Bach edited by Gregory G. Butler, […]

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July 9, 2008 (July 9, 2008)

Background music, my top 25

music

Some time ago, Entertainment Weekly featured a column by author Stephen King about his 25 favorite songs. After he made his list, King checked his iTunes playlist counter and found that what he […]

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July 8, 2008

Chicago Tribune on translation publishing

Chicago

Following up a Translating the World panel that he moderated at this year’s Chicago Tribune Printers Row Book Fair, Patrick Reardon profiles translation publishing at Illinois presses. “Translators are unofficial ambassadors, negotiating […]

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July 8, 2008 (July 8, 2008)

Word Cloud

publishing Uncategorized

So I saw this book publisher’s manifesto as a cool word cloud at The Digitalist and decided to make a wordle from our mission statement. Here it is in full […]

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July 7, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

OAR bloggers

miscellaneous

Who knew that the University’s Office of Admissions and Records had a blogging crew?  Jaime’s blog includes a picture of John Philip Sousa’s birth home and some words about a […]

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July 3, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

Promotional trailers for university press books?

publishing

The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Nina Ayoub queried 25 university press publicists about the use of video trailers to promote books. The results (subscription required) are here. Note:  I was included in the survey but […]

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July 3, 2008 (July 3, 2008)

Spring on the roof

author events poetry

Oni Buchanan, a poet whose new collection Spring will be published by the University of Illinois Press this autumn, will be reading from the rooftops in New York City on August 5. […]

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July 2, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

AAUP report, Montreal

publishing

Scott McLemee, writing in Inside Higher Ed, has a wrap up of last week’s Association of American University Presses annual meeting in Montreal. “Over the past few years, a certain boilerplate rhetoric […]

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July 1, 2008

New marketing idea via Penn State Univ. Press and NASCAR?

Uncategorized

Penn State University Press has a fun, informative blog.  Here’s their idea for Expanding the Marketing Base. Wait, was that PSU Press’s way of getting ME to tell YOU about their […]

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July 1, 2008 (July 1, 2008)

Bodies not found, “Alchemy of Bones” not mentioned

Chicago

The June 29 edition of the The Washington Post included a feature story on murder cases where no body is found and referenced Robert Loerzel’s Alchemy of Bones: Chicago’s Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 without actually naming […]

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