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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2022, 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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