Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 3

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today.

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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 2

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.

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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2023, Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 1 today.

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The Serious Reader: Scholarship and Annotated Editions

There is a particular reading experience associated with annotated editions of classic literature. How do publishers enhance that experience?

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SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 15: A Primer on Publishing Operations from Books & Journals Perspectives

In this episode of SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast, hosts Meredith Adinolfi and Sara Grimme chat with Anne Flegel, the Head of Academic Book Operations at Oxford University Press, and Midori Baer, Senior Director of Publishing Operations at the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS), on the role of operations in scholarly publishing.

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Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist

A new research study finds that open access monographs can generate significant revenue — both on the print side and digitally. 

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The Open Access Fund at Edinburgh University Press: An Interview with Nicola Ramsey

An interview with Nicola Ramsey of Edinburgh University Press about the Press’s new Open Access Fund.

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Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works

An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress

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Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication

Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?

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Thoreau and the Office Cubicle

Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.

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Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach

New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.

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