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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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July 1, 2008 (July 1, 2008)

Palmer’s “James P. Cannon” wins the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize

awards

Bryan D. Palmer’s book, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, has recently been awarded the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize given by the Canadian Historical […]

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June 27, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

The Chicago Tribune losing book coverage?

publishing

PW Daily reports that the Chicago Tribune may further reduce its pages dedicated to book coverage. This brought to mind a Slate story from early 2007 on newspaper profits. […]

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June 27, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

The Jewish Press reviews “Unwanted Beauty”

reviews

Writing for The Jewish Press, Menachem Wecker reviews Brett Ashley Kaplan’s Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation in conjunction with Joyce Ellen Weinstein’s art exhibition opening at the Florida Holocaust Museum. […]

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June 26, 2008

243 friends by the 4th of July

miscellaneous

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 […]

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June 25, 2008 (June 27, 2008)

Bees: the original social networkers?

miscellaneous publishing

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 […]

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June 24, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

Just Landed: July and August books

new 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 […]

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June 24, 2008

I’m a social networker, yes I am

Uncategorized

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 […]

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June 24, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

Kindleized!

publishing

Inside Higher Ed reports that a few new university press titles will be available soon via Kindle. […]

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June 19, 2008 (August 20, 2008)

Publishing’s mating call?

publishing

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.) […]

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