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June 14, 2011

Columbia University Press Acquires Wallflower Press

We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Wallflower Press books. (For a listing of Wallflower books) Columbia University Press has acquired worldwide rights to publish nearly 170 backlist titles from UK publisher Wallflower Press and will continue to publish...

March 24, 2011

Columbia University Press Joins the JSTOR Book Initiative

We are very excited to have joined the Books at JSTOR initiative which will help to make university press books more accessible online. Here is the press release describing Books at JSTOR and the involvement of other university presses: Books...

March 16, 2011

Correction to Inside Al Qaeda, by Rohan Gunaratna

In 2002, Columbia University Press, under license from C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. published a book entitled Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror by Rohan Gunaratna in which a businessman named Sheikh Muhammad Hussein al-Almadi was identified as...

August 23, 2010

Huffington Post on the 17 Most Innovative University Presses

The Huffington Post recently highlighted university presses, their distinctive lists, and what separates them from trade publishers. Though the list of selected presses is somewhat idiosyncratic (some great presses were not included), the piece by Anis Shivani does nicely summarize...

May 10, 2010

Columbia University Press Fall 2010

Below is an online versions of our Fall 2010 catalog. (Click on “Fullscreen” to view a more readable version of the catalog) We’ll have all the titles on our site later this week but we’re so pleased with the catalgo...

February 19, 2010

CUP Award-Winning Covers!

The Association of American University Presses recently announced winners from its book, jacket, and journal show, awarding four awards to Columbia University for jacket design. Congratulations to our excellent design department! Here are the winning jackets: (Designer: Chang Jae Lee)...

November 9, 2009

Free Books! — Fall Office Cleanup Contest

CONTEST OVER. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS. As you can imagine happens at a book publishing company, we’ve got quite a lot of book lovers working here. And they collect books in their offices — a lot of great books. We’re...

September 11, 2009

Gastropolis at the Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival, one of the best, most interesting and most fun literary events in New York City is happening on Sunday (September 13.) The event is from 10:00 am to 6 pm in Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza....

August 28, 2009

Columbia University Press editor on the politics of Black hair

We were all very excited to see that “Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics,” an article from yesterday’s New York Times featured a quote from our colleague Afua Adusei-Gontarz, an assistant editor Columbia University Press (pictured). The article discussed the...

August 21, 2009

Paul Offit throws out the first ball

Needless to say, writing a blog for a university press one does not often get the chance to report on one of our authors throwing out the first ball at a major league baseball game. However that honor was bestowed...

July 27, 2009

Notice about CUP Web site

We are in the process of updating our shopping cart and are currently not accepting any Web site orders. Our new shopping cart will be installed on August 1 at which point we will once again be accepting orders. We...

May 8, 2009

Columbia University Press to move fulfillment to Perseus and accelerate digital delivery

Columbia University Press announced a plan to close its warehouse facility in Irvington, NY in the summer of 2009 and outsource its fulfillment operations to Perseus Distribution, a division of Perseus Book Group. This restructuring is part of an overall...

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