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…

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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…

University presses periodically face threats to the financial support they receive from their universities. Such support is crucial, leaders of academic…

Stanford U. Press Alan Harvey, director of Stanford U. Press Stanford has the world’s third-largest university endowment, valued in 2018 at $26.5 billion. Yet…

F or a few years now, higher-ed versions of Shark Tank have been popping up on campuses and at academic conferences. The sessions follow the model of the…

Norway is the latest European country to cancel its subscription deal with Elsevier, following Germany and Sweden. In a press release , the Norwegian…

Books News Dan Mallory — who writes under the pen name A.J. Finn — signs copies of his best-seller, “The Woman in the Window,” which shares similar plot lines…

Contentious changes at Australia’s oldest university press have raised questions about the degree to which in-house publishers should produce general interest…

When one of the largest independent book and journal printers in the U.S. closed its doors last summer, many university presses braced themselves for printing…

noipornpan When it comes to textbooks, faculty members have a lot of feelings. Many of them negative. But their thoughts on digital coursework and openly…

Book Territory Book bindings serve as tap handles for the many craft-beer selections at Books & Brews. Credit Leah Klafczynski for The New York Times…

O n our third and penultimate date, hiking up a steep trail, a tall and fit man who had earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and made a living telling mining…