For much of publishing history, success was defined by the “frontlist”—the shiny parade of new releases that arrived each season with marketing fanfare and bestseller ambitions. Backlist books—titles published more than a year or two ago—were often treated like quiet...
As we enter the fifth month of 2026, now feels like a good time to consider what we can expect to see in scholarly publishing throughout the remainder of the year. To begin making predictions for a new year, it is always helpful to take a minute and reflect on...
The number of self-published books with ISBNs has more than doubled over the past decade, and approximately one-third of all books sold in the US are self-published. Additionally, indie authors are gaining recognition, and some are gaining true fame with this...
In the past, scientific publishing moved at the pace of glaciers—deliberate, weighty, and often frustratingly slow. And there was good reason for this. Peer review is an important part of scientific publishing that is necessary to weed out research that is not...
Plagiarism, according to Oxford Languages, is “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. We might all remember the grueling days of high school English class, learning about in-text citations and the importance...
Movies seasons come and go, but great books about movies never leave readers! Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears By Michael Schulman It was the best of movies, it was the worst of fighting about movies, it was the cinema of wisdom, it was the...
