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On Reading 'The Lost Gutenberg' and Giving Up Paper Books | Inside Higher Ed
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…
North Carolina press seeks sustainable open-access model for monographs
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 backs down -- for a year -- on ending support for university press
Stanford University provost Persis Drell late Tuesday indicated that the university was backing down -- at least for another year -- on plans to end financial…
Stanford moves to stop providing funds to its university press
University presses periodically face threats to the financial support they receive from their universities. Such support is crucial, leaders of academic…
Proposed Cut of Stanford U. Press’s Subsidy Sparks Outrage
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…
Lessons Learned From ‘Shark Tank’ on Writing Book Proposals
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…
Norwegian Universities Ditch Elsevier | Inside Higher Ed
Norway is the latest European country to cancel its subscription deal with Elsevier, following Germany and Sweden. In a press release , the Norwegian…
Similarities in 2 Novels Raise Questions About the Limits of Literary Influence
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…
Shift in mission of Melbourne University press raises many issues
Contentious changes at Australia’s oldest university press have raised questions about the degree to which in-house publishers should produce general interest…
Printer closures, paper shortages lead to delays for university publishers
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…
Professors Worry About the Cost of Textbooks, but Free Alternatives Pose Their Own Problems
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…
Where the Thirst for Literature Meets the Thirst for Beer
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…
How Academics Measure the Value of Their Books
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…
Leaders of literary journals discuss strategies to face economic challenges
CHICAGO -- Serious journals of literature and ideas pride themselves on in-depth pieces that advance scholarship. The latest issue of the journal Novel features…
New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out
Clockwise from top left: Kahlil Gibran; F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda; Agatha Christie; Jean Toomer; and Thomas Mann. Nearly a century ago, the…
Elsevier Is Becoming a Data Company. Should Universities Be Wary?
U. of Florida Students work on a project in a U. of Florida engineering lab. The university recently turned to Elsevier, already the biggest publisher of…
In switch to digital-first products, publishers are signing fewer textbook authors
Few academics make their fortunes writing textbooks, and if current trends in academic publishing continue, it's possible that even fewer will become star…
Financial Support of University Presses | Inside Higher Ed
If you go to the website of the University Press of New England, you will see this bleak notice: UPNE and UPNE Book Partners are ceasing operations at the end…
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