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Few academics make their fortunes writing textbooks, and if current trends in academic publishing continue, it's possible that even fewer will become star…

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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Sean Proctor for The Chronicle Julius Scott T he manuscript was almost published a couple of times. One editor expressed enthusiasm, then abruptly passed.…

Academic journals play an important role in knowledge dissemination. No one knows how many journals there actually are, but several estimates point to around…

The Middlebury College bookstore doesn't look much like a bookstore anymore. The textbooks that once lined its shelves were cleared out earlier this year,…

Essay Credit Linda Huang I own far more books than I could possibly read over the course of my remaining life, yet every month I add a few dozen more to my…

Mike Nayna James A. Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian, the academics who carried out a publishing hoax that targeted scholarly journals R eactions…

Illustration by Jonathan Barkat for The Chronicle O ver the summer, the Wall Street Journal ’s Jillian Kay Melchior became suspicious of a bizarre-sounding…

I'm on the road early this week so in my stead, a guest post from Derek Krissoff, Director of West Virginia University Press - JW A casual observer might…

Anne Trubek started a publishing company on a lark. In 2012, Trubek, a writer, professor, and single mother, had been given a $20,000 artist fellowship by…

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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…

iStock When an e-textbook at one university was priced at $999, students expressed outrage on social media. Cost can be a significant barrier, and most…

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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