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Fischer, Ruth – Change, 1975
Two years have passed since the Press of Case Western Reserve University closed, but the disagreement hasn't yet settled. There is still sharp disagreement over whether the university's decision to terminate the press was warranted. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Higher Education, Printing, Publishing Industry
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Barber, Virginia – Change, 1975
Presents some guideposts for authors when dealing with a publisher. (PG)
Descriptors: Authors, Copyrights, Higher Education, Printing
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Klein, Easy – Change, 1975
Custom publishing allows teachers to collect previously published and unpublished materials in book form for classroom use. The speed and flexibility of this publishing makes it useful for faculty who believe they can write or assemble a better text for their classes. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Printing, Publications, Publishing Industry
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Collins, Jean – Change, 1974
The goals of the Feminist Press are to change education through publications, to reach people with stories of women's lives, and to change the books children read in schools and libraries. (Author)
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Publications
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Katz, Molly – Change, 1978
The objectives and activities of Exposition Press and its publisher, Ed Uhlan, are examined briefly. The publishing company is the largest purveyor of author-financed books. (LBH)
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Financial Support, Higher Education
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Change, 1984
The University of Chicago Press is the largest university press in the country. As a nonprofit organization with its primary concern its contribution to scholarship, the press can invest time on projects it deems worthy even though some might take decades to complete. (MLW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Publications, Publishing Industry
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Martin, Donna – Change, 1973
Financial problems are causing many university presses to close down their publication of scholarly books and articles. (HS)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Higher Education, Printing
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Ledger, Marshall; Roth, Arnold – Change, 1980
An illustrated sequential collection of written observations from twentieth-century publishers and professors responding to a young scholar with a manuscript on nineteenth-century British parodists (period titles added) is presented. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Authors, Cartoons, Higher Education, Humor
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Weil, Henry – Change, 1976
"Harvard Magazine," an alumni publication which entered the public market for national consumption in 1974, now has a circulation of 52,000 and a $100,000 annual deficit but hopes to be self-supporting by 1980. Rationale and format are described. (JT)
Descriptors: Alumni, Higher Education, Periodicals, Private Colleges
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Lichtenberg, James – Change, 1992
As college textbooks have become more attractive, sophisticated, and useful, the textbook industry is suffering from high costs, increased popularity of used books, effects of rapidly advancing information and instructional technology, the atypical business structure of the college textbook market, and changing textbook development processes. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Costs, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Bermel, Joyce – Change, 1978
In a two-year study to be released, the National Enquiry into Scholarly Communication recommends that publishing in the humanities be supported by a federal agency. The logical body is the National Endowment for the Humanities. Current financial problems with scholarly publishing are reviewed, including Enquiry recommendations regarding consortium…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Consortia, Costs
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Zuger, Abigail – Change, 1976
The Undergraduate Press at Harvard is the first publishing house in the U.S. to be organized and staffed completely by college undergraduates. Its purpose is to introduce college students to the world of publishing, and it plans to issue three volumes a year. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Students, Editing, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education
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Rigden, John S. – Change, 1982
Blackmarketing books, which has become a major operation involving professors on university and college campuses throughout the United States, is discussed. At the heart of the operation is the practice by publishers of sending complimentary copies of textbooks to professors for examination purposes. (MLW)
Descriptors: Books, College Faculty, College Stores, College Students
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Kadushin, Charles – Change, 1979
Managed texts are written and designed by a team of writers and researchers under the direction and control of a publishing house. How these books got started, what needs they meet, their advantages and disadvantages, and the consequences they are having on college text publishing are addressed. (JMD)
Descriptors: Authors, Editing, Higher Education, Merchandising
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O'Toole, Patricia – Change, 1979
City Lights Books of San Francisco has served as a literary meeting place, as a bookstore that concentrates on serious literature--especially poetry, as a publisher of significant voices such as those of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski, and as an institution with a political conscience. (JMD)
Descriptors: Authors, Bookstores, Facilities, Higher Education
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