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A Knight in Istanbul
In book publishing we’re busy talking about the need to expand our social networking efforts, to create online communities around books and authors, to consider content from the customer’s perspective […]
Lady Gaga’s New Clothes
Thanks to Tony over at the Penn State Press blog for bringing this video, apparently from a Dorling Kindersley sales conference, to my attention. Perfect food for thought late on a Friday afternoon […]
Beleaguered libraries, then and now
A blogger at The Urbana Free Library compares the fate of the wondrous library in ancient Alexandria with the squeeze being put on today’s public libraries in the wake of the global […]
Sending David Beckham a copy of Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois
Among the many stories generated by the Tiger Woods debacle is this one from the Chronicle’s Tweed column. A book in the floorboard of the famously wrecked Escalade appears in a […]
Sing It Pretty
Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]
Captain Kirk and the Split Infinitive
Salon reviews The Lexicographer’s Dilemma by Rutgers English professor Jack Lynch. Which brings us back to those split infinitives, the most famous of which is spoken by William Shatner in […]
Jamming in the archives
In today’s Dream Job category, we have the University Library at California Santa Cruz seeking to fill the Grateful Dead Archivist position. So: perfect opportunity to sport your Jerry tie, […]
MPublishing Cometh
The University of Michigan Library announces MPublishing, the new uber-publishing initiative that includes the University of Michigan Press alongside other campus units devoted to scholarly communication. The focus of MPublishing will be […]
The Art of Yes: On Will Powers
My friend and former colleague Will Powers died suddenly in August. He was the design and production manager par excellence at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. We’ve seen copious tributes […]
A kinder, gentler Onion
Given the torrent of negative media attention enjoyed of late by the state of Illinois and its flagship university , it’s no surprise that the Onion wanted to get in […]
The Power of Google
The Wired Campus reports on Google’s announcement that it will allow authors and publishers to use Google Books as a distribution channel for books that they license through Creative Commons. […]