And We’re Live!: A Rough Guide on Academic Podcasting

The academic book review has long had a status issue, both in the United States and elsewhere. With the advent in the U.K., where I'm based, of the Research…

This essay is the third in a three-part series dedicated to answering the question “What do university press editors have to say about the mystery surrounding…

Getty Images The first essay I ever published online, " Coding ‘White Trash’ in Academia, " was a rant I drafted in a few hours — about how my rural, small-town…

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…