Melville, NY – October 6, 2025 – AIP Publishing (AIPP), a not-for-profit publisher serving the global physical sciences community, today announced the launch of AIP Fusion, a […]

Amazon Business—the division of the online retailer that provides procurement services for businesses and institutions—this summer introduced a new online hub designed for libraries. The hub offers of...

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

AI-enhanced transfers and portable peer review capabilities mark significant step toward frictionless scholarly publishing HOBOKEN, N.J., September 25, 2025 – Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in aut...

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

Bristol University Press has launched the Global Social Challenges Development Fund to support marginalised voices in academic publishing and make vital rese...

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In a joint statement issued Friday afternoon, ReaderLink and Baker & Taylor announced they have “mutually” agreed to terminate ReaderLink’s proposed acquisition of the troubled library wholesaler.

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) could make millions of books illegal in Europe, forcing publishers to pulp stock and raising costs for readers.

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We're finally seeing a move to truly digital-first publishing systems and in today's post Alice Meadows interviews Liz Ferguson of Wiley about this transition, including their own Research Exchange pl...

Free to Think 2025 is the eleventh installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 395 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s detentions of pro-Palestinian campus protesters violates the First Amendment rights of foreign students and scholars.

MDPI Books invites submissions to its brand-new Early Career Researcher Prize, sponsored by the journals: Humanities, Philosophies, Publications, and Social ...

Nearly half of book industry professionals are using artificial intelligence tools for work, but 98% report significant concerns about AI implementation, according to new survey data from the Book Ind...

The commissioning (or acquisitions) editor is an important figure in academic book publishing, yet they have been largely overlooked by researchers in the publishing studies field. Existing studies depict editors as privileged gatekeepers or entrepreneurs, holding significant power over what does, or does not, make it into print. Drawing on qualitative interviews with seventeen commissioning editors from various commercial publishers and university presses in Britain, this article examines how contemporary editors perceive the nature of their work. It discusses topics such as editorial intervention, author relations, and the pervasiveness of managerial controls, and it suggests that the editor’s authority and autonomy is more ambiguous and contingent than previously thought.

A new study finds ChatGPT fails to take into account retraction notices across a wide range of research.

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...