How do authors measure the success of their books? Rachel Toor asks this question in a very interesting piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Given my history in publishing, people often ask me for help with their book projects. One […]
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On Book Exhibits and World War II Material Culture (#AHA19)
Megan Jones of The Pingry School offers one more post from the floor of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago. In this post, Megan reflects on her last day of the conference with a nod to the book exhibit and a […]
Your Manuscript is 30 Years Late!
The Chronicle of Higher Education is running a story about David Congdon, an acquisition editor at the University Press of Kansas who, after arriving at his new job, found a book contract that was thirty years old. He contacted the author […]
University of Virginia Press Announces New Book Series on American Spirutality
Leigh Eric Schmidt of Washington University and Matthew Hedstrom of the University of Virginia will be the editors. Here is a taste of the announcement: The American Spirituality series seeks scholarship that explores dimensions of American religious life that fall […]
What is An Academic Book?
Check out Tom Cutterham‘s nice post at The Junto on what defines an academic book. Here is a taste: Is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring an academic book? Is Mary Wollestonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman? The list of twenty nominees for “the […]