Archives for Publish or Perish

Maybe I’m just a cockeyed optimist, but I’m less gloomy than some are about the state of university-press publishing. If you have a Chronicle subscription, you can read why here, in my report from the Association of American University Presses conference, held in Montreal last weekend. Nice town, Montreal. What I did there: Walked around… Continue reading »

A nonprofit “publishing collective,” the Open Humanities Press, wants to do for humanists what the open-access movement has done for scientists–or at least make a start in that direction. They’re handling 7 journals to start with, and have lined up some impressive names for their editorial board, including Stephen Greenblatt and Alan Badiou. Best of… Continue reading »

Princeton University Press has recalled all 4,000 copies of Peter Moskos’s Cop in the Hood after discovering more than 90 errors of spelling and grammar in the 245-page book. They say an inexperienced copy editor is to blame, and promise to have a corrected version of the book back in stores by the end of… Continue reading »

Heck, yes! This one’s a bit different, though; it’s hands-on and home-grown. While the Ithaka group was preparing its big-picture look at “University Publishing in a Digital Age,” the University of California system undertook a survey of publishing activities (or scholarly communication, as we must call it now) on its 10 campuses. As the report’s… Continue reading »

Literary Rejections on Display (“Join the Revolution, Join the Pity Party”): Sanctioned by Entertainment Weekly, and sure to make you smile. Through gritted teeth. Remember this: Someone out there will always say no. Can you tell I got a rejection today? One of the better, more thoughtful ones–much to admire, etc. etc.–which only makes it… Continue reading »