Awesome. In just two days my Goodreads friend count has tripled. At this pace I’ll have 243 friends by the 4th of July. We’re still working out who will be the […]
Bees: the original social networkers?
Let accidents happen and be more like bees, according to The Digitalist: [H]uman teams are inherently weak but . . . nature’s teams (bumble bees, termites etc) display characteristics that […]
Just Landed: July and August books
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest edited by R. David Edmunds (July 14, 2008) –German Film after […]
I’m a social networker, yes I am
OK, I recently joined Shelfari, Goodreads, and Library Thing to see what they’re all about. I’m in the process of adding books to my shelves but do I really need […]
Kindleized!
Inside Higher Ed reports that a few new university press titles will be available soon via Kindle. […]
Publishing’s mating call?
Apparently the advance reading copies I send to reviewers have a value that I hadn’t considered. (PW Daily pointed the way to this New York Observer piece.) […]
University of Michigan Press to sever ties with Pluto
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that the University of Michigan Press will end its distribution relationship with Pluto Press by the end of this year following controversy over the book […]
When You’re Married to a Librarian
. . . you find out about blog posts like this. My favorite line: For as books move to the cloud, from digital bundles to network assets, we will not […]
PW reports author sues booksellers for selling his books
PW Daily reports on a uniquely difficult situation for some booksellers. […]
Some Houses by Maura Stanton
When I was a child growing up in the Midwest—in a suburb of Peoria, Illinois to be exact—my favorite time of week was Saturday morning. That’s when my father, a salesman […]
Remembering Eliot Asinof
The news of Eliot Asinof’s passing earlier this week brought back memories of having spent time with him at a BEA in the late 90s. The show was enjoying its […]
Just Landed: New books
Many new books have landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States edited by Stephanie Gilmore (June 2, […]