Tag: E-Books

A mid-summer’s roundup of academic publishing news

PUP director takes AAUP helm The Association of American University Presses has a new president. At the close of the annual AAUP meeting in June, Princeton University Press Director Peter Dougherty assumed leadership of the 75-year-old association. Dougherty, who has directed PUP since 2005, spoke in his inaugural address about his vision for "the next chapter…

A mid-summer’s roundup of academic publishing news

PUP director takes AAUP helm The Association of American University Presses has a new president. At the close of the annual AAUP meeting in June, Princeton University Press Director Peter Dougherty assumed leadership of the 75-year-old association. Dougherty, who has directed PUP since 2005, spoke in his inaugural address about his vision for "the next chapter…

A hopeful transformation: A report from the ALA annual meeting

By Tashina Gunning, marketing coordinator, Project MUSE I returned last week from spending several days in Anaheim, California, at the American Library Association’s annual meeting. Project MUSE, as we always do at ALA, had a booth in the exhibit hall where we met current and prospective library customers, and talked with them about the many exciting …

It’s a jungle out there: Book publishing in the shadow of Amazon, a single-focus edition of the Scholarly BIN

By Brendan Coyne, exhibits and awards manager E-books and Amazon. If you're a reader (which presumably you are, since you're visiting the blog of a university press), and especially if you happen to work in the book publishing business, both e-books and Amazon.com are inescapable entities, and deservedly so. Though Michael Hart's Project Gutenberg created…

Big Ideas

by Dean Smith, Director, Project MUSE One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. —Hart Crane I first discovered the books of the Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) through a copy of When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore,…