Books & Publishing

A lot is riding on them, but they can be difficult to compose. James Phelan and Faye Halpern offer some helpful strategies for getting them right.

Scott McLemee explores a few -- perhaps somewhat surprising -- new pricing models for books and journals.

Injunctions against excessive nonacademic acknowledgments are not new, explains Richard Hughes Gibson.

Researchers in machine learning, a field in which journals are generally open, vow not to read, submit or review for Nature Machine Intelligence, which will charge subscription fees.

Scott McLemee explores the connections between various books forthcoming from scholarly presses.

Indiana University wants other institutions to absorb insights gleaned from its fast-growing digital textbook initiative.

In a bid to gain market share, publishers have slashed the cost of digital textbooks.