Obviously, I’ve stolen the beauty of Garth Stein’s title to grab attention, but isn’t that the point of the copy you read in a catalogue or on the back of a book? The words used to describe the many more … Continue reading Doc Martyn’s Soul: The Art of Writing Copy in the Rain
You would not believe how many people it takes to get a book or journal on the shelf. UNP is made up of authors, translators, editors, distributors, marketers, managers, assistants, coordinators, designers, sales representatives, and so many more. And let’s … Continue reading Our 2014: A Year in Retrospective
Emily Giller is the exhibits coordinator and media planner in the marketing department. American Historical Association (ASA) November 6-9, 2014 (Los Angeles, CA) UNP conference attendees: Alicia Christensen, American Studies Editor; Maggie Boyles, Editorial Assistant “The American Studies Association conference was … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: November Exhibit Round Up
In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day. THROWBACK THURSDAY Harvard University Press – Backlist or Decemberists? MIT Press – Throwback Thursday featuring Muriel Cooper Temple University Press – Temple University Press’ influential Asian American History & Culture Series University of Toronto Press University of Washington Press – Behind the Covers: Six Classics of Asian American Literature, Then and Now Wesleyan … Continue reading UP WEEK: Throwback Thursday
In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day. UPs IN POPULAR CULTURE Georgetown University Press – Watch Spy Shows with Georgetown University Press University Press of Kentucky – His Life on the Blacklist, or How Communists Brought Us the “Cran-stache” University Press of Mississippi – Now Playing: Walt Before Mickey University of Pennsylvania Press – University presses: Where knowledge finds a … Continue reading UP WEEK: UPs in Popular Culture
In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day. COLLABORATION University of California Press – On the Front Lines of the Ebola Epidemic by Naomi Schneider, executive editor University of Chicago Press – Turabian Teacher Collaborative by University of Chicago Press staff members working with the TTC University Press of Colorado Duke University Press – Anthropologist Eben Kirksey on collaboration at the … Continue reading UP WEEK: Collaboration
In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day. YOUR UNIVERSITY PRESS IN PICTURES University Press of Florida Fordham University Press Indiana University Press Johns Hopkins University Press Stanford University Press Continue reading UP WEEK: Your University Press in Pictures
Emily Giller is the exhibits coordinator and media planner in the marketing department. In book publishing there is never a dull moment; there are always things to do and projects to finish. However, there is one month in particular, October, that is the busiest of them all for me because it marks the beginning of exhibits season. This year UNP exhibited at three conferences in October. Here’s an inside look at our experiences at these conferences. American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) October 8-12, 2014 (Indianapolis, IN) UNP conference attendee: Matt Bokovoy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Native American and Indigenous Studies … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: October Exhibit Round Up
The last time I was in Chicago, my favorite store was American Girl Place. So when I found out my AAUP residency application was approved I was excited to see the city again, this time without my Samantha but with a new job title and eagerness to learn how the University of Chicago Press varied from UNP. My initial intentions when applying for the AAUP Residency Program centered on the growing importance of social media in business practices. I wanted to gain a better understanding of university press publishing as well as network with a university press with the prestige … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: AAUP Residency, Chicago Edition
Growing local, farm-to-table, Lo-Lo, locavore…local is where it’s at! Locally sourced, locally available, everything within reach of where it came from, nothing shipped half way around the world – these sentiments dominate a lot of the dinner table conversation at … Continue reading Doc Martyn’s Soul: A Farmer’s Market for the Book World
