As Publishing Perspectives readers know, interests in the commercial trade side of the international publishing industry can at times show remarkable parallels to those in the academic publishing world. Sometimes the twain shall meet, after all. An example of this today (August 14) is in the release of the first collection produced by a new collaboration called the Big Ten Open Books project, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The university presses participating in this first collection comprise:
Indiana University Press
Michigan State University Press
Northwestern University Press
Purdue University Press
University of Michigan Press
University of Wisconsin Press
