Great video Crystal. I think that people would be surprised at both the variety of styles and subjects and the accessibility of the books published by university presses.
Thank you! So true, university presses have such a rich variety. Your tag for the Top 10 has some astonishing books. It's amazing to explore locally what's available to us as well as globally. We're quite lucky to have so much information available to us. It's just a matter of being able to sift through it all to find what we need! I hope your weekend is awesome! 🤗
Come to think of it, I /have/ read a few Uni Press books this year! I read a most enlightening one from Yale for a class on William Blake over the summer, called Eternity's Sunrise by Leo Damrosch. I think Frye's Fearful Symmetry is also printed by a Uni Press... I'm not sure. Oh! And speaking of 4 and 5, as well as that video you made about loving Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward (or at least I assume that's the Cancer Ward you were talking about, I haven't watched it yet :O ) I've been buying up University of Notre Dame's March 1917, and Vol 2 comes out this November! I think that'll make it halfway done? And then they're going to publish April 1917 and the volumes of The Red Wheel which have already been translated, I think. My copies of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and One Thousand Plateaus, and Kafka: Toward A Minor Literature by Deleuze and Guattari are all published by U of Minnesota as well, I believe. And I am a hoarder of Oxford World Classics lol. Really looking forward to them publishing the last two books of Rumi's Masnavi!
You're super lucky to be purchasing the Red Wheel as they come out! I have lots of Russian works on my shelf already. But I'm still so tempted to purchase them. I must, must wait until I read what I have first. Yes, it's Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward I'm talking about in that video. I still have to film parts 2 & 3 for it. These are all amazing sounding books, I'll have to investigate all of them! Oxford World Classics or just world literature in general is fantastic! We honestly have a whole world of literature to read about, we're so lucky. Thank you for your comment. 🤓
@@BiblioAtlas and thank YOU for your channel! I mean, I bought the last one... maybe a couple months after it came out? I think Amazon had it one sale. I'll definitely have to wait on this one, since I'm even broker than I was last year ;_; If I had money, though, I'd spend it on Plato's Threefold City and Soul by Joshua Weinstein from Cambridge Press but wow, idk at 70+ bucks for 300 pages in paperback.... I'm tempted to do as so many students do and seek it on the uh *cough* internet. :/ A PUBLIC, opensource research library would be awesome, though.
You could list a few RUclips channels which share your passion for university presses. I largely share this passion of yours, but I have been around RUclips for ten years; I have found no such channels. None, that is, outside of yourself. You're leading the way now, since this recent confession. Biblio, please start a revolution! The BookTube community would have to cease to be so derivative and descriptive in their content with books which take effort to digest. From the standpoints of a consumer and a student, one problem with uni presses are the pricing of the books. While I lean toward publishers like (and I've just checked by bookshelf) OUP, Bloomberg, Blackwell, Penguin, Pearson Ed., etc., I do so in charity shops and libraries. The decline in sales is perhaps a result of books being available cheaper elsewhere. Not just sold used, but available for free digitally (eg. via Scribd). Unlike services such as Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, academic presses haven't yet adopted a subscription model. So there is no financially feasible way for low-income earns to contribute their money. Many students I know either buy used copies (regardless of edition) stocked in bookshops, or from sellers on websites like Ebay. Thus books from 2019 may be passed up until their price corresponds to their assumed value. And that's without even mentioning journal articles, the academy's inaccessible work. Thank goodness for Open Access initiatives, else I'd of not even seen original research in it's rawest format. I must, though, commend Blackwells.co.uk for being somewhat of an outlier, in being student and consumer friendly. They're a book retailer in the U.K. who match Amazon on price (regardless of a book's release date), and often run sales and promotions throughout the year. I try to pick-up books here where feasible, especially since their stores have used book isles. It is important we feed into the academic publishing industry somehow, after all. Following my initial suggestion, you could provide tips on transitioning from popular fiction to academic non-fiction. I don't think people are adverse to the latter, but many lack in literacy or ideas to get started. I liked your videos on how you read, so you are already addressing the first. The initial stage may be to gather as many academic sources as possible without risk (meaning without spending money). For example, I have a list of podcast, blog and publication feeds on an RSS reader. These episodes and articles often provoke my interest in a topic, and they fit into any schedule. I have the aforementioned bookshelf, too, alongside saved PDFs and website clippings in Zotero. Maybe then the default response wouldn't be to pick-up the closest book at the airport, but begin cultivating a need to learn about matters. In which case, the academic book becomes necessary, rather than a should. Looking forward to the video on libraries.
Goodness... a revolution, let me see what I can muster up! 😅 I do agree with you wholeheartedly that we need to talk more about education, resources for getting reliable information all these types of things. I do think our society is in a major flux where there's heaps of changes happening. It's both terrifying and exciting. But change always is both of these things. I'm guilty of talking about periphery bookish subjects rather than focusing solely on the book itself. I enjoy the conversations we can have related to books, not only sticking strictly within the book's content. To me, books are meant to help us improve as people, get inspiration for how to make the world better. For booktubers to recommend, search out who replied to this tag, so far very knowledgable folks with heaps more experience than myself, have replied to it. I'm happily astonished at the tag replies so far. University Textbooks & the prices students have to pay for them is a seriously troubling ball of wax. Editions have small updates & are released far too often. Compassionate professors always begin their courses with introducing the more accessible alternatives or even how to work around the new edition they could have been pressured/forced to purchase fo the course. There's textbook renting services, I haven't tried any of them. Textbooks that are used only once are overpriced (the one's for $59+). Often, the information is introductory, hasn't changed much, so I can't see how any real 'manpower' went into it producing them. For fields like IT, perhaps the price point can be justified. I'm with you that overall, they're overpriced. I'm not sure how the Universities/Publishers justify it or what the story is behind it. If it's purely a more profitable cashgrab from the publisher, totally not cool. If it at least funds the libraries or research at the institution, that makes it a bit better? But still. -.- I think education should just be free for everyone who wants it. So I'm heavily biased here. I heard Scribd is cool, the website does look amazing & I'd like to support a smaller service like this as opposed to the giant Amazon. Thanks for the info on Blackwells. 😃 Yes to supporting the Academic Publishing Industry ... they could be one of the lifebloods for fostering reliable information. Thanks, I certainly plan to create videos that help people transition from popular fiction to academic reading. I'm not the best, but I'll sure do my best. Most of it still sits on the reader & their motivation levels. A desire to learn can seriously win against heaps of barriers. Good Will Hunting is still an inspiring movie to me. His comments about libraries really stayed with me. Your idea about gathering academic sources is a great one, thanks. :D Cheers to not simply grabbing a book while at the airport! 😅 Some of my best reading was on a plane because I packed books appropriate for the occasion. Thank you for all these technical suggestions, I'll have to bookmark them & go through them in more detail. Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. I hope the rest of your week is pretty awesome. 🤓
Hi Richard, thanks for your concern. :D I'll come back. I had to step away from my channel for awhile. Gosh, I had no idea so much time passed! Sorry to be away for so long. :(
Great video Crystal. I think that people would be surprised at both the variety of styles and subjects and the accessibility of the books published by university presses.
Thank you! So true, university presses have such a rich variety. Your tag for the Top 10 has some astonishing books. It's amazing to explore locally what's available to us as well as globally. We're quite lucky to have so much information available to us. It's just a matter of being able to sift through it all to find what we need! I hope your weekend is awesome! 🤗
Thanks for your years of good work here - hope all is well with you.
come back please! i just found your channel!
I love that you're dedicating so many videos to university presses. :)
Thanks Jenn! Uni Presses are one important source of information. :D
@@BiblioAtlas You're back! 😀
@@RememberedReads It's been awhile! Good to see you again! 😃
I can learn soooooo much from you
Come to think of it, I /have/ read a few Uni Press books this year! I read a most enlightening one from Yale for a class on William Blake over the summer, called Eternity's Sunrise by Leo Damrosch. I think Frye's Fearful Symmetry is also printed by a Uni Press... I'm not sure.
Oh! And speaking of 4 and 5, as well as that video you made about loving Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward (or at least I assume that's the Cancer Ward you were talking about, I haven't watched it yet :O ) I've been buying up University of Notre Dame's March 1917, and Vol 2 comes out this November! I think that'll make it halfway done? And then they're going to publish April 1917 and the volumes of The Red Wheel which have already been translated, I think.
My copies of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and One Thousand Plateaus, and Kafka: Toward A Minor Literature by Deleuze and Guattari are all published by U of Minnesota as well, I believe. And I am a hoarder of Oxford World Classics lol. Really looking forward to them publishing the last two books of Rumi's Masnavi!
You're super lucky to be purchasing the Red Wheel as they come out! I have lots of Russian works on my shelf already. But I'm still so tempted to purchase them. I must, must wait until I read what I have first. Yes, it's Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward I'm talking about in that video. I still have to film parts 2 & 3 for it. These are all amazing sounding books, I'll have to investigate all of them! Oxford World Classics or just world literature in general is fantastic! We honestly have a whole world of literature to read about, we're so lucky. Thank you for your comment. 🤓
@@BiblioAtlas and thank YOU for your channel! I mean, I bought the last one... maybe a couple months after it came out? I think Amazon had it one sale. I'll definitely have to wait on this one, since I'm even broker than I was last year ;_;
If I had money, though, I'd spend it on Plato's Threefold City and Soul by Joshua Weinstein from Cambridge Press but wow, idk at 70+ bucks for 300 pages in paperback.... I'm tempted to do as so many students do and seek it on the uh *cough* internet. :/
A PUBLIC, opensource research library would be awesome, though.
You could list a few RUclips channels which share your passion for university presses. I largely share this passion of yours, but I have been around RUclips for ten years; I have found no such channels. None, that is, outside of yourself. You're leading the way now, since this recent confession. Biblio, please start a revolution! The BookTube community would have to cease to be so derivative and descriptive in their content with books which take effort to digest.
From the standpoints of a consumer and a student, one problem with uni presses are the pricing of the books. While I lean toward publishers like (and I've just checked by bookshelf) OUP, Bloomberg, Blackwell, Penguin, Pearson Ed., etc., I do so in charity shops and libraries. The decline in sales is perhaps a result of books being available cheaper elsewhere. Not just sold used, but available for free digitally (eg. via Scribd). Unlike services such as Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, academic presses haven't yet adopted a subscription model. So there is no financially feasible way for low-income earns to contribute their money. Many students I know either buy used copies (regardless of edition) stocked in bookshops, or from sellers on websites like Ebay. Thus books from 2019 may be passed up until their price corresponds to their assumed value. And that's without even mentioning journal articles, the academy's inaccessible work. Thank goodness for Open Access initiatives, else I'd of not even seen original research in it's rawest format.
I must, though, commend Blackwells.co.uk for being somewhat of an outlier, in being student and consumer friendly. They're a book retailer in the U.K. who match Amazon on price (regardless of a book's release date), and often run sales and promotions throughout the year. I try to pick-up books here where feasible, especially since their stores have used book isles. It is important we feed into the academic publishing industry somehow, after all.
Following my initial suggestion, you could provide tips on transitioning from popular fiction to academic non-fiction. I don't think people are adverse to the latter, but many lack in literacy or ideas to get started. I liked your videos on how you read, so you are already addressing the first. The initial stage may be to gather as many academic sources as possible without risk (meaning without spending money). For example, I have a list of podcast, blog and publication feeds on an RSS reader. These episodes and articles often provoke my interest in a topic, and they fit into any schedule. I have the aforementioned bookshelf, too, alongside saved PDFs and website clippings in Zotero. Maybe then the default response wouldn't be to pick-up the closest book at the airport, but begin cultivating a need to learn about matters. In which case, the academic book becomes necessary, rather than a should.
Looking forward to the video on libraries.
Goodness... a revolution, let me see what I can muster up! 😅 I do agree with you wholeheartedly that we need to talk more about education, resources for getting reliable information all these types of things. I do think our society is in a major flux where there's heaps of changes happening. It's both terrifying and exciting. But change always is both of these things. I'm guilty of talking about periphery bookish subjects rather than focusing solely on the book itself. I enjoy the conversations we can have related to books, not only sticking strictly within the book's content. To me, books are meant to help us improve as people, get inspiration for how to make the world better.
For booktubers to recommend, search out who replied to this tag, so far very knowledgable folks with heaps more experience than myself, have replied to it. I'm happily astonished at the tag replies so far.
University Textbooks & the prices students have to pay for them is a seriously troubling ball of wax. Editions have small updates & are released far too often. Compassionate professors always begin their courses with introducing the more accessible alternatives or even how to work around the new edition they could have been pressured/forced to purchase fo the course. There's textbook renting services, I haven't tried any of them. Textbooks that are used only once are overpriced (the one's for $59+). Often, the information is introductory, hasn't changed much, so I can't see how any real 'manpower' went into it producing them. For fields like IT, perhaps the price point can be justified. I'm with you that overall, they're overpriced. I'm not sure how the Universities/Publishers justify it or what the story is behind it. If it's purely a more profitable cashgrab from the publisher, totally not cool. If it at least funds the libraries or research at the institution, that makes it a bit better? But still. -.- I think education should just be free for everyone who wants it. So I'm heavily biased here. I heard Scribd is cool, the website does look amazing & I'd like to support a smaller service like this as opposed to the giant Amazon.
Thanks for the info on Blackwells. 😃 Yes to supporting the Academic Publishing Industry ... they could be one of the lifebloods for fostering reliable information.
Thanks, I certainly plan to create videos that help people transition from popular fiction to academic reading. I'm not the best, but I'll sure do my best. Most of it still sits on the reader & their motivation levels. A desire to learn can seriously win against heaps of barriers. Good Will Hunting is still an inspiring movie to me. His comments about libraries really stayed with me.
Your idea about gathering academic sources is a great one, thanks. :D Cheers to not simply grabbing a book while at the airport! 😅 Some of my best reading was on a plane because I packed books appropriate for the occasion. Thank you for all these technical suggestions, I'll have to bookmark them & go through them in more detail.
Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. I hope the rest of your week is pretty awesome. 🤓
Where did you go?
Hi Richard, thanks for your concern. :D I'll come back. I had to step away from my channel for awhile. Gosh, I had no idea so much time passed! Sorry to be away for so long. :(