spoiler: nope.

The following is the text of a talk I gave last week at the University of North Texas’s Academic Leadership Workshop. I’m hoping to develop this further, and so would love any thoughts …

When Amherst College opens its first press early next year, the open access publication will publish its entire catalog in digital editions first. Following a growing trend, the press will also be a new arm of Amherst’s library, and Mark Edington will be at its helm, the college announced on December 6. He will start January 1, 2014. Currently the director of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, Edington comes from a diverse work background, encompassing everything from editorial work at the journal Daedalus to social entrepreneurship. Library Journal caught up with Edington to talk about the new model Amherst is pursuing, the opportunities it opens up in the publishing world, and the challenges of presenting scholarly work for free while staying sustainable.

Academic-library ebooks cost more than print.

From Brill Publishing: Brill extends Brill Open, its Open Access model, to include books. Titles published in Brill Open undergo the same rigorous peer review and uphold the same high-quality publication standards that Brill is known for.

Caren Milloy looks at some of the approaches publishers are taking to experiment with open-access monographs

On AHA and "da book."

After years of lowering book prices, Amazon is offering smaller discounts on some books. Authors and small publishers said this put some books beyond an audience’s reach.

Simon Chaplin: The humanities matter. Books matter. Through open access, they can reach a wider audience than ever before

Aaron McCullough and Meredith Kahn answer questions about an innovative new imprint at Michigan Publishing.

Higher education institutions need to recognise the changing world of publishing, says Rupert Gatti – it's time for academics to take matters into their own hands

Reading about the "Mellen Mess" -- the case of the publisher that is suing a librarian who criticized the quality of the houses's output -- ...

Nice argument that while the boundedness of books is valuable, it isn't ALL that's valuable in scholarly discourse.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) will launch MLA Commons, a new scholarly communication platform, at the January 2013 MLA convention in Boston.

University administrators, following intense campaign and much criticism from faculty members, reverse decision.