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Second column from Rebecca, on how to consider the question of dissertation-into-book. Again, worth reading and sharing! https://www.chronicle.com/article/should-you-turn-your-dissertation-into-a-book (2023-11-06 ↗)

Join AUPresses during #OAWeek23 for "Unpacking the Open Access Impact on Print Book Sales." Co-authors will discuss and answer questions about the NEH-funded study of print sales of OA monographs. Tuesday, 10/24, from 10-11AM ET. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dI6VzpxUQ-uzhZDEElUhEQ (2023-10-19 ↗)

The new Slack and Thunderbird interfaces were designed purposely to drive me to despair and migraine. Who thinks that these undifferentiated expanses of content and tools and gunk plus lightweight typeface makes anything for anyone easier? Also someone in this dang mechanics weighting room is watching Youtube on their phone without headphones so can we please retire the entire idea of the Internet? It was a bad one, on balance. (2023-10-10 ↗)

The caution about using naturalizing language —like "ecosystem" and "landscape" —for an ECONOMY that exists within the systems of today's capitalism is a salutary one for this marketing/communications person. (2023-09-28 ↗)

Another actually essential read from Rebecca Colesworthy: https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/ "Scholars and publishers have our own unique areas of expertise, responsibilities, and experiences of the manifold crises into which higher education is perpetually forced. But at base, scholars’ working conditions are publishers’ working conditions." https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/ (2023-09-28 ↗)