He nurtured an empire of influential comic strips, including “Cathy,” “Doonesbury,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “The Boondocks” and “For Better or for Worse.” Lalo…

Last week, I wrote about an interview I recently conducted with two university press editors -- Elizabeth Ault, an editor at Duke University Press, and Jim…

Here’s a simple question for my faculty colleagues. Why can sales representatives from commercial textbook publishers just walk into your departments and…

A Love Letter to Neighborhood Bookshops Nashville is about to find out that the lowest price isn’t always the best value. Contributing Opinion Writer Parnassus…

Undistracted reading hasn’t disappeared; it may never have existed to begin with. Illustration by Ben Denzer A physical book is good for much more than reading.…

According to the lawsuit, Cengage — whose merger with McGraw-Hill is under review by the Department of Justice — has not been calculating authors’ royalties…

James Daunt, who has run Waterstones since 2011, is the new chief executive of Barnes & Noble. Credit Suzie Howell for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to…

Scott Anderson, NewsTribune via AP Images A textbook-rental program at a community college in Illinois Traditional textbook publishers are struggling. Secondary…

(Hat-tip to Bryan Alexander for highlighting many of these points on Twitter.) Tuesday’s IHE piece on Pearson’s move to “digital-first” textbooks is worth a…

W hen scholars approach me for help writing a book proposal, especially when they believe their topic will be of general interest, my first piece of advice is…

Profile Judith Gurewich in the Other Press offices in New York. “When my stomach intervenes, I stop the reading,” she says of her editing process. “I ask what…

Here at Literary Hub, we’re big fans of rejection . And why not? Everybody gets rejected at some point, including young, aspiring short story writers who go on…

"The Monograph in the Digital Age,"

This article originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of In 2014, my Mellon colleague, Helen Cullyer, and I sat in on a roundtable discussion of deans of…

Juan Carlos Ulate / Reuters W hen Yale recently decided to relocate three-quarters of the books in its undergraduate library to create more study space, the…

The author Lesley Nneka Arimah reading in Red Rock Canyon as part of the 2019 Believer Festival in April. Credit Roger Kisby for The New York Times Skip to…

The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis Published in March of 2019. How many paper books would…

The University of North Carolina Press is leading an experiment to significantly lower the cost of producing scholarly books -- an important step toward a…

Stanford University provost Persis Drell late Tuesday indicated that the university was backing down -- at least for another year -- on plans to end financial…