Longtail Wars
Evan Schnittman explains how publishing is winning the Longtail War.
Ned Sherrin Remembered
By Kirsty OUP-UK All of us here at OUP-UK were saddened to hear of Ned Sherrin’s death on October 1, from throat cancer, at the age of 76. He was familiar to virtually everyone in the country as the presenter of the Radio 4 programme Loose Ends, but during his many years in showbusiness he […]
A Curse on Mean-Spirited Intellectuals:
And Literary Scholars Above All
Philip Davis is fed up with seeing literature treated as fodder for convoluted academic analysis.
‘After a Journey’
Philip Davis blogs for Moreover.
Life on Air: BBC Radio 4’s Milestones
David Hendy talks about five milestone moments in the history of BBC Radio Four
The New Gay
D. Michael Lindsay looks at Evangelical Americans.
A Letter from Liverpool: ‘All You Need Is – What?’
Philip Davis is back!
Why Royalties?
Evan Schnittman takes the debate on royalties further by questioning the structure of advances.
Friday procrastination: link love – medicine, mindsets, and Arthur Miller
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
The Rise and Fall of the First Internet
Donald Ritchie looks at the telegraph.
Email as literature?
Is the Internet good for literature? On first glance, it seems so. Between internet forums, blogs, messages and emails, nearly everyone is writing, and reading, certainly more than we did just a few years ago, when the ubiquity of television and the telephone seemed to be making literacy obsolete.
Dumbing down the Declaration of Independence
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
This Day in History: The LP is Unvieled
On this day in 1948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS unvelied the LP, and by doing so, revolutionized the music industry.
OUPBlog’s First Podcast: Gene Autry
Holly George-Warren interviews Jacqueline Autry.
The ABC’s of GBS: Part 3
Google Library, The Lawsuits, and Is Charkin Barking Up the Right Tree?
Google and libraries are doing something they need a license to do – and rather than ask for one, they are asking the copyright holders to provide a list of properties they wish to protect or not include in this program.
Blogging At The Press
Rebecca OUP-US Happy Friday to you all! I am in Minneapolis this weekend for the American Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. If you are around you should come hear the panel I am speaking on at 3:30pm. We will be talking about my favorite topic, blogs.