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The Bookstore at the End of the World
With e-book sales rising and Borders about to close for good, the post-print age looks closer than ever. Scott McLemee goes underground.
The Activist Who Downloaded Too Much
Indictment charges theft of millions of journal articles through MIT's JSTOR account.
'The Fall of the Faculty'
Faculty members feeling besieged by, well, take your pick -- increased scrutiny of their productivity and the relevance of their...
E-phemeral E-Books
In a bid to stoke interest in e-books, some university presses let students and scholars rent electronic volumes for a fraction of the full price.
'The Faculty Lounges'
It will surprise no one familiar with her work that Naomi Schaefer Riley is not a fan of tenure. In...
Could Pirates Be Your Friends?
At university press meeting, some see advantage to having their works copied without permission.
The E-Reader Effect
Some university presses are seeing surges in digital book sales since the New Year — especially in backlist titles with little marketing support.
Rejecting Double Blind
Economics association and political science journal abandon what has been dominant form of peer review in social sciences.