Category: Electronic Publishing

September 30, 2014

To the Point: A New E-book Series from Columbia University Press

                  Columbia University Press is proud to announce the launch of To the Point an exciting new e-book series that extends the scholarship of our authors for a growing global and digital audience. We present standalone chapters from the press’s...

November 8, 2012

The Thursday morning panels at the 2012 Charleston Conference, Twitter-style

Our collection of the best tweets from the Thursday morning panels at the Charleston Conference 2012.

November 7, 2012

#UPWeek Blog Tour!

For University Press Week, the blogs of 26 academic publishers are coming together to explain the importance of university presses.

June 22, 2012

Patron-Driven Acquisitions: #AAUP12 and Beyond

The online conversation about PDA at #AAUP12.

June 22, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

May 11, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly look at the best articles from the academic press blogosphere.

April 27, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of recent blog posts and features from other academic presses. This week: Levon Helm, Shakespeare, World Book Night, Derrida, and robot dogs!

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...

October 20, 2010

Announcing Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA)

We are very excited to announce the launch of Columbia University Press Online Access (CUPOLA). CUPOLA provides quick and easy access to full-text e-books and chapters of CUP’s award-winning academic and trade publications. CUPOLA allows users to search the full...

March 3, 2010

Need the right quote? There's an app for that!

The Columbia World of Quotations is now available as app for the iPhone, and features 65,000 quotations by more than 5,000 authors covering 3,000 years—from Bella Abzug to Frank Zappa and Galileo to Themistocles. The application is based on an...

October 15, 2008

Reflections on Amazon's Kindle

Carolyn Kellog’s Los Angeles Times‘ blog Jacket Copy features a post about Ted Striphas and his take on Amazon’s Kindle. Striphas is an assistant professor at Indiana University and the author of the forthcoming book The Late Age of Print:...

February 28, 2008

Letter from Jim Jordan about Gutenberg-e

The recent Chronicle of Higher Education article about Gutenberg-e got a number of facts wrong, which is not surprising given the fact that Columbia University Press was not contacted before the article was published. First, it is wrong in fact...