Showing posts with label catalog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catalog. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Busy busy busy
Spring has sprung in the northeast, and as usual that means our next seasonal catalog—the fall seasonal catalog, mind you—will be dropping soon. We've been busy working on that lately, hence the lack of exciting new blog posts. We hope to remedy this soon, but while you wait, remember to become fans of SUNY Press on Facebook, where you can follow our latest news and notes. Also, get out and enjoy the spring weather!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Digital Revolution
Today we'd like to share a message from our Executive Director, Gary H. Dunham.
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Greetings,
It’s high time to speak again about the digital revolution. Dizzying advances in digital communication technologies make it an extraordinarily promising time to be a publisher. At the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, our authors are sharing their creativity and scholarly research with readers through a wide array of means and media, only one of which is the printed book. As I have often said, those publishers who cling only to the printed book often are not standing in the same room where authors and readers are holding conversations. It’s time to move to where the information flow is taking place.
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore an elegantly designed, printed book—a real, bound narrative that’s portable, acquires a wonderfully vintage smell over time, carries the marks and moments of its owner, and looks so right on a shelf. Printed books will not and should not go away, but they are part of a richer, more dynamic world of information sharing nowadays. It is our responsibility as a publisher to track closely and understand the evolving, myriad ways that authors and readers connect, and to offer a range of choices to both facilitate that communication and enhance the worldwide visibility and accessibility of SUNY Press publications. You deserve that attention and vision from a university press, and so do the lives, peoples, topics, issues, and histories that we share through publications.
Embracing the latest in digital communication technologies is thus a key cornerstone of SUNY Press’s long-term strategic plan. Many of the strategic initiatives and partnerships necessary to carry out this transformation are in full swing, and let me mention some of them here. Our seasonal catalog is now primarily issued as an online, interactive edition. All new titles and a growing number of our backlist are offered in XML, the most versatile and powerful digital platform available. We’re making huge strides towards realizing our dream of a largely virtual warehouse. Each new scholarly monograph published by SUNY Press is available simultaneously in an eco-friendly and affordable DirectText electronic edition. The press’s new journals and conference proceedings dissemination programs are also digitally based, allowing purchasers the freedom and flexibility to buy a digital or print-to-order copy of the whole volume, an individual chapter, or bundles of chapters. We have also aggressively pursued partnerships with a host of online partners in order to maximize the presence of our publications on the Web: NetLibrary and ebrary offer thousands of SUNY Press titles to libraries; Amazon's Kindle now features SUNY Press best sellers, with thousands more soon to be available; Barnes & Noble currently offers over 1,000 SUNY Press e-books, with thousands more on the way. And Google currently makes available thousands of SUNY Press books on Book Search, all of which will soon be sold also through the revolutionary Google Editions program. Wherever you look for a book on the Web, nowadays you are very likely to run into a SUNY Press publication.
Whew! There’s much going on here, digital-wise, and so much more in the works. Stay tuned!
Until next time,
Gary H. Dunham
Executive Director
________________________________________________________
Greetings,
It’s high time to speak again about the digital revolution. Dizzying advances in digital communication technologies make it an extraordinarily promising time to be a publisher. At the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, our authors are sharing their creativity and scholarly research with readers through a wide array of means and media, only one of which is the printed book. As I have often said, those publishers who cling only to the printed book often are not standing in the same room where authors and readers are holding conversations. It’s time to move to where the information flow is taking place.
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore an elegantly designed, printed book—a real, bound narrative that’s portable, acquires a wonderfully vintage smell over time, carries the marks and moments of its owner, and looks so right on a shelf. Printed books will not and should not go away, but they are part of a richer, more dynamic world of information sharing nowadays. It is our responsibility as a publisher to track closely and understand the evolving, myriad ways that authors and readers connect, and to offer a range of choices to both facilitate that communication and enhance the worldwide visibility and accessibility of SUNY Press publications. You deserve that attention and vision from a university press, and so do the lives, peoples, topics, issues, and histories that we share through publications.
Embracing the latest in digital communication technologies is thus a key cornerstone of SUNY Press’s long-term strategic plan. Many of the strategic initiatives and partnerships necessary to carry out this transformation are in full swing, and let me mention some of them here. Our seasonal catalog is now primarily issued as an online, interactive edition. All new titles and a growing number of our backlist are offered in XML, the most versatile and powerful digital platform available. We’re making huge strides towards realizing our dream of a largely virtual warehouse. Each new scholarly monograph published by SUNY Press is available simultaneously in an eco-friendly and affordable DirectText electronic edition. The press’s new journals and conference proceedings dissemination programs are also digitally based, allowing purchasers the freedom and flexibility to buy a digital or print-to-order copy of the whole volume, an individual chapter, or bundles of chapters. We have also aggressively pursued partnerships with a host of online partners in order to maximize the presence of our publications on the Web: NetLibrary and ebrary offer thousands of SUNY Press titles to libraries; Amazon's Kindle now features SUNY Press best sellers, with thousands more soon to be available; Barnes & Noble currently offers over 1,000 SUNY Press e-books, with thousands more on the way. And Google currently makes available thousands of SUNY Press books on Book Search, all of which will soon be sold also through the revolutionary Google Editions program. Wherever you look for a book on the Web, nowadays you are very likely to run into a SUNY Press publication.
Whew! There’s much going on here, digital-wise, and so much more in the works. Stay tuned!
Until next time,
Gary H. Dunham
Executive Director
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The e-catalog looks and sounds great
Our new Fall e-catalog is alive and kicking on our website right now. Here's a direct link, or click on the cover image above. The e-catalog looks and sounds like a magazine—listen for the sound of rustling "paper" with every turn of the page. Fun stuff.
Take a look, flip through, and play with the hyperlinks to more book information, a search feature, notes and bookmarks, and direct ordering capabilities. You can even download a copy as well.
We'd love your feedback on the e-catalog, so leave us a comment right here on the blog or drop us a line at info@sunypress.edu.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
New catalog cover = instant nostalgia trip
Our Fall catalog is out and we wanted to share it with you. Those folks are partying like it's...1969. Do you spot yourself or one of your parents in that sea of humanity? So many people, so few shirts.
We're still gearing up for Woodstock's 40th anniversary. Here's an interesting article from the New York Times with the latest scoop on what's up happening with the anniversary concert planning.
**UPDATE**
Check out the Daily Swarm for feedback from Michael Lang on that Times piece we linked to above. Seems like that article wasn't completely accurate. The plot thickens...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Spring into...Fall?
So we're finally enjoying some consistently mild and sunny spring weather in Albany, and that can only mean one thing here at the Press...time to start focusing on the upcoming fall '09 titles. Yup, we're working hard on the fall catalog, which should drop by the first week of May. After that, we'll be working on getting the deluxe, interactive online edition uploaded to our website for your viewing pleasure as well.
So think spring...but also keep an eye out for information on our books for the upcoming fall season, including Robert Moss's novel, The Firekeeper, Richard Selzer's "lost" novel, Knife Song Korea, and a book on that little concert they put together down in Woodstock all those years ago. We hear it was a big deal.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Far out
Along with being a trippy homage to the old Roger Dean Yes album art, our new Mind, Body, Spirit e-catalog is also a fine place to explore our extensive collection of titles in yoga, new age, spirituality, tantra, Judaism, and the body, to name only a few.Align your mind, body, and spirit today with a visit to our website to order a few choice titles from this colorful new catalog.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The new e-catalog's here! The new e-catalog's here!
The brand new SUNY Press Spring 2009 catalog is now available for download at our website. Check out the online edition's cool enhancements, peruse our new titles, and then order some books.Much better than the new phone books.
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