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The Publishing Community Should More Actively Oppose Book Bans

With a lawsuit filed last week Pen America, Penguin Random House, authors, and parents began fighting book bans. Other publishers should help.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 25, 2023
  • 7 Comments

10 Trends I Observed Interviewing 10 Publishing Executives About the Future of Academic Books

As co-host of the Scholarly Communication Podcast, I’ve spent the last six months speaking with university press publishers and small to mid-size commercial book publishers. Here’s what I’ve learned.

  • By Avi Staiman
  • May 23, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Guest Post — Street Books: A Non-profit Mobile Library Serving the Houseless Residents of Portland

An interview with Laura Moulton, founder of Street Books, a mobile library which serves Portland’s houseless community. SSP annual meeting attendees are invited to bring paperback books to donate to Street Books.

  • By Madelyn Stone
  • May 5, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — A Decade of Resilience for University Presses

After a decade at the helm of the Association of University Presses, Peter M. Berkery Jr. assesses the organization and environment for university presses and their work.

  • By Annette Windhorn, Peter Berkery
  • Apr 18, 2023
  • 4 Comments

The Internet Archive Loses on Controlled Digital Lending

On Friday, the Internet Archive lost its “controlled digital lending” case on summary judgment. Reactions today from our Chefs Rick Anderson, Joseph Esposito, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roy Kaufman, Roger C. Schonfeld, and Karin Wulf.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Karin Wulf, Rick Anderson, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Joseph Esposito, Roy Kaufman
  • Mar 28, 2023
  • 16 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Ziyad Marar

Robert Harington talks to Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE, and author of “Happiness Paradox” and “Intimacy”, and most recently “Judged: The Value of Being Misunderstood”

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 27, 2023
  • 1 Comment

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 13: Industry Primer — Books Within the Scholarly Publishing Landscape

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi (Cell Press) and Sara Grimme (Digital Science) speak to Ben Denne, Director of Publishing for Academic Books (Cambridge University Press), about the books side of scholarly publishing.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Mar 24, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Open Access for Monographs is Here. But Are we Ready for It?

Reporting on a Mellon-funded open access monograph pilot, UNC Press Director John Sherer notes successes and remaining challenges.

  • By John Sherer
  • Mar 23, 2023
  • 23 Comments

Guest Post — In Tough Times the Key is to Think Differently

Alan Harvey from Stanford University Press discusses their evolving strategy in turbulent times.

  • By Alan Harvey
  • Mar 8, 2023
  • 5 Comments

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Charles Watkinson

Robert Harington talks to Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan and Director of the University of Michigan Press, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 6, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Jasmin Lange

Robert Harington talks to Jasmin Lange, Chief Publishing Officer at Brill, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 27, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Will Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Consolidate?

Much of the scholarly publishing sector has already experienced a flight to scale. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks: Is a major consolidation among humanities and social sciences publishers coming next?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 22, 2023
  • 22 Comments

Guest Post — Entering a New Age of Digital Publishing: Dispatch from Digital Book World 2023

John Warren and his students (MPS in Publishing, George Washington University) share perspectives on attending Digital Book World 2023 and the trends and highlights relevant for scholarly publishers.

  • By John W. Warren, Tina Donnelly, Joshua Luke Johnson, Maria Sviridova Chandis
  • Feb 15, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Revisiting: Interstitial Publishing

Looking back at a 2015 post on the idea of interstitial publishing, a new form of publishing that aims to take advantage of what previously was viewed as lost time in between primary events during the day.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Feb 1, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Measuring Metadata Impacts: Books Discoverability in Google Scholar

Although Google Scholar claims to not use DOI metadata in its search index, a recent study finds that books with DOIs are generally more discoverable than those without DOIs.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad, Michelle Urberg
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • 9 Comments
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