Archives for Publish or Perish

I got to spend some time recently at Georgetown University’s Office of Scholarly and Literary Publications. Informally known as Booklab, it’s a “literary boutique” run by Carole Fungaroli Sargent, who combines a deep knowledge of publishing with an intuitive-and-informed sense of how writers work and what they need. An author herself, Carole also has a… Continue reading »

This is a nifty idea. If you know of other universities that are trying out similar ventures, let me know. Tons of scholarly presses have worked blogging into their PR portfolios, but this is the first university-created litblog I’ve come across.

Talk to your campus librarian.

Don’t yawn. This is critical stuff for publishers who rely on textbooks as a source of revenue and for the students who are less and less willing to pay big bucks for those textbooks. A couple of weeks ago, I did a story for the Chronicle about plummeting textbook sales at university presses. It caught… Continue reading »

Should research conducted with federal dollars be made freely available to the public after it’s published? The NIH says yes. Publishers say not so fast. Last week, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Calif.) introduced a bill, H.R. 6845 or the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, that would make it a lot harder for federal agencies… Continue reading »