Last week I finally used a local independent bookstore birthday gift card that I had received in May. Last year I was excited to use a similar gift card on a Steve […]
Beverly Lindsay interview
Hear Dr. Alvin Jones interview Beverly Lindsay about her new edited book Ralph Johnson Bunch: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. […]
Digital “Tear” Sheets by Denise
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 […]
Just Landed: Summer books
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, […]
Background music, my top 25
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 […]
Chicago Tribune on translation publishing
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 […]
Word Cloud
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 […]
OAR bloggers
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 […]
Promotional trailers for university press books?
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 […]
Spring on the roof
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. […]
AAUP report, Montreal
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 […]
New marketing idea via Penn State Univ. Press and NASCAR?
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 […]