On The New York Times online Technology page, David Pogue relays his experience releasing books in electronic form. Many reader comments follow. “Twice in my career, ‘blind’ people e-mailed me, requesting […]
White valedictorian at Morehouse College
Stephane Dunn, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films, contributed a commentary to NewsOne.com about Morehouse College’s white valedictorian […]
Jack Forbes at the UC Davis Bookstore
Jack Forbes, author of The American Discovery of Europe, spoke recently to a crowd of fifty patrons at the UC Davis Bookstore. Tradebooks buyer Paul Takushi captured the event. […]
Microsoft to shut down Live Search Books
PW Daily reports that Microsoft is ending its Live Search Books program. “Microsoft will be providing publishers with digital copies of their scanned books, and is working with Ingram Digital, […]
The fine print
Inside Higher Ed reported this morning that a web-based company has stopped selling the content of faculty papers that had been sold online without the authors’ knowing consent. “It might have been […]
“A Stranger Among Us” literary events, and another good review
OV Books has a week of literary events lined up in Chicago to celebrate the publication of Stacy Bierlein’s new anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision […]
UIP author comments on China’s response to earthquake
Poshek Fu, editor of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema, spent A Minute With the News Bureau discussing the government of […]
World’s Columbian Exposition excavation
The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday that a class at the University of Chicago is digging for urban archeolgical treasures on land that once housed the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. “The […]
Printers Row Book Fair press release
Four publishing-related units located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Illinois Alumni Association, will collaborate on an exhibit at the 2008 Chicago Tribune Printers Row […]
“Stealing Indian Women” adaptation for the big screen
The Southern Illinoisan reported over the weekend that Under These Same Stars, an adaptation of Carl Ekberg’s recent book Stealing Indian Women, is being filmed in Alto Pass, Illinois. “Carl […]
Bess Lomax Hawes’s “MTA Song”
Peter Dreier blogged yesterday about the new issue of Dissent magazine that includes his piece on the origins of MTA Song. Bess Lomax Hawes, author of the new memoir Sing It Pretty, […]
Kathryn Anthony interviewed on NPR about “potty parity”
Kathryn Anthony, author of the new University of Illinois Press paperback Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Architectural Profession, was interviewed this morning on NPR about toilets […]