Items tagged with university presses.

A Tough Transition for TriQuarterly

by Staff

News and Trends

January/February 2010

The latest casualty in the ongoing siege of academic presses and literary magazines in the economic downturn was recorded last fall when Northwestern University announced plans to end the forty-five-year run of its prize-winning journal TriQuarterly as a print publication. After the magazine's final print issue this spring, it will become an online-only, student-run publication.

School’s in Recession

by Kevin Nance

News and Trends

November/December 2009

For seventy-five years Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, has been home to two of the country's most storied literary institutions, LSU Press and the Southern Review. But prestige was not enough to save either one from a 20 percent cut in university subsidy in July.

Q&A: Riker Rides Dalkey Into the Future

by Kevin Nance

News and Trends

September/October 2009

Associate director Martin Riker speaks about developments at Dalkey Archive, the independent press that recently announced a new distribution deal with Norton and the launch of a new European fiction anthology this fall.

Cambridge Announces New Print-on-Demand Venture

by Adrian Versteegh

Daily News

Cambridge University Press (CUP) has kicked off a new print-on-demand project to make rare and out-of-print books available worldwide. The Cambridge Library Collection, which launched on Monday, uses digital scanning technology to reissue works readers would otherwise have to travel to far-flung libraries to consult.