If you imagined a virtual bookshelf for digital textbooks, you might picture something like VitalSource. The 22-year-old company offers ebooks for purchase or…

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I t’s a truth universally acknowledged that an author’s (often unstated) expectations usually go unmet. No matter how many columns I write extolling the hard…

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Those looking to submit an article to Review of Higher Education this summer probably saw this message on the journal’s website: The missive has proven jarring,…

After the death of Ursula K. Le Guin, I downloaded the audiobook version of No Time to Spare , one of the final tomes from the celebrated fantasy writer. It’s a…

This is small of me, but I can’t help myself. Someone says they’re obsessed with the TV version of Game of Thrones —or The Expanse , Altered Carbon , The…

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It was a book that drove me away from books. This wasn’t a trauma of distaste, or indulgence: not a literary bad mussel, not waking up on the floor of someone's…

S cholarly reading is a craft — one that academics are expected to figure out on our own. After all, it’s just reading. We all know how to do that, right? Yes…

Theo Stroomer for The Chronicle Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the U. of Colorado at Denver, abruptly shuttered a blacklist of journals he deemed…

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T he best book editors publish according to their own taste. While the projects they acquire need to fit in with the overall list of the press, seasoned editors…

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On Saturday, attendees at the meeting of the Southern Association for Women Historians tweeted about statements participants made there. Support for the…

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Last week University College London Press, Britain’s first fully open-access university press, celebrated a milestone -- one million downloads of its free…

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Image: iStock As a former book editor in a previous life, I already know "what editors do." But I learned a lot more from a new collection of essays by 27 of…