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Academic Publishing must face the Inconvenient Truth

jannekeadema1979 wrote 3 days ago: Another thing I would like to draw your attention to is an excellent speech given by Michael Jensen … more →

Tags: open access, eBooks, OAPEN, Open Business Models, aaup, national academies press, Michael Jensen, academic publishing, Environmental Publishing

Jeff Bezos and the Demise of the Printed Word

awessels wrote 1 month ago: I first read about this interview yesterday via Jacket Copy of the LA Times, though it has been disc … more →

Tags: Publishing, Amazon, Carolyn Kellogg, Demise, E-BOOK, iPhone, Jacket Copy, "Jeff Bezos", kindle

VQR on the Demise of the University Press

awessels wrote 2 months ago: Earlier this week Ted Genoways published what he titled a manifesto on the future of university publ … more →

Tags: Publishing, Demise, Ted Genoways, Virginia Quarterly Review, open letter, LSU

New Book: The State of Scholarly Publishing

Steve wrote 2 months ago: “For decades, university presses and other scholarly and professional publishers in the United State … more →

Tags: Research, US

Introducing Follow the Reader!2 comments

Kat Meyer wrote 3 months ago: It’s a new day in the book world, shaped by digitization, online distribution and social media … more →

Tags: Profiles in Convergence, Publishing Insurgents Unite, big publishers, Book Reviewers, Marketing, queer books, reader communities

Cambridge University Press: dons step in as digital age threatens jobs at world's oldest publisher

Steve wrote 3 months ago: “College dons have become embroiled in a bitter row over plans to axe more than 150 jobs at Cambridg … more →

Tags: Governance and Administration, UK

Reflections on university press publishing

Steve wrote 3 months ago: “Developments over the last few decades have changed some of the primary concerns of scholarly book … more →

Tags: Research, academic publishing

U of Michigan Press to go e-only

Brian wrote 3 months ago: Inside Higher Ed UM people argue that moving to primarily e-only monographs program frees them from … more →

Tags: eBooks, Scholarly Publishing

Small Presses in Trouble

bronzeword wrote 5 months ago: Small presses are taking a big hit   By Richard Krawiec – Correspondent   It’s increas … more →

Tags: Publishers

Rating the Book Covers -- Steve Fraser’s ‘Wall Street: America's Dream Palace'

1minutebookreviewswordpresscom wrote 8 months ago: The upside-down flag is a metaphor. A few comments on the cover of Steve Fraser’s Wall Street, revie … more →

Tags: Book covers, Art, Book Design, book illustration, Books, Design, dust jackets, Graphic Design, Scholarly Presses

Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data

Paul Lomio wrote 1 year ago: Bless the university presses.  They produce fascinating — and affordable! — titles.  And … more →

Tags: Book Review, Factual Research, New Books, Professional reading, statistics, Joel Best, Stat-Spotting, University of California Press

Is the Academic Monograph an Endangered Species?

Andrew wrote 1 year ago: In the United States, a system of just 88 university presses support and maintain the entire process … more →

Tags: The Ivory Tower and its Discontents, academic careerism, tenure, Promotion, Research

Rockefeller University Press adopts Creative Commons license policy

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: Rockefeller University Press has just announced that it will follow a Creative Commons license for i … more →

Tags: Creative Commons, Scholarly Journals

Duke to Provide Enhanced Services for Project Euclid

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: Cornell University Library and Duke University Press Announce Partnership; Duke to Provide Enhanced … more →

Tags: open access, Scholarly Journals

Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/NEH%20Workshop%20Report%20FINAL-3.pdf On January 14, 2008, a group … more →

Tags: Scholarly Publishing

University Press Round-up 3.

mariegauthier wrote 1 year ago: I expect this will my last post on university presses, unless I discover I’ve missed something … more →

Tags: Poetry, Books, frontlist

University presses and scholarly communication: Potential for collaboration

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: C&RL News, January 2008 Vol. 69, No. 1 by Michael Furlough URL is  http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/a … more →

Tags: scholarly communication

Five American university presses collaborate for scholarly publishing

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: Five American university presses collaborate for scholarly publishing - 04 Jan 2008 Five university … more →

Tags: Scholarly Publishing

Two exciting bits of online book news

John Mark Ockerbloom wrote 1 year ago: Well, exciting to me, anyway. I was thrilled to learn, via Open Access News, that the University of … more →

Tags: Online Books, open access, Science Fiction


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