Reposted by Stephen ShapiroAnne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m wrote about missing physical books (kinda)notesfromasmallpress.substack.comPhysical BooksThe first book Belt (then called Rust Belt Chic Press) published was basically self-published; I taught myself how to do it as I went. 0132
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroAnne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Pro tip: if you want a job in publishing, “I love editing” is probably less likely to impress than “I’m killer at finding the right BISAC code” 4213
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Congratulations to all the authors shortlisted for the 2024 Waterloo Centre for German Studies book prize, including Douglas Pretsell (@history-doug.bsky.social) for his marvelous book Urning uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...uwaterloo.caWCGS Book Prize | Waterloo Centre for German Studies | University of WaterlooThe Waterloo Centre for German Studies promotes research into any and all aspects of the German-speaking world. 011
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroSamuel Huneke @schuneke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It’s officially publication day!! 0136
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 06/03/2026The DOI works using the resolver at dx.doi.org and using the REST API it has a timestamp from this morning. dx.doi.org/doiRA/10.135... says its a Crossref DOI. Is there a delay before it appears on Crossref's site? (This is my first time looking "inside" a DOI, so I may not understand the process)dx.doi.orgResolve a DOI Name 100
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026A good summary of the latest wave of book promotion scams 000
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroDr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I am thrilled to have received the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social in category "Holocaust" for People without History Are Dust. My book was shortlisted alongside books by colleagues whom I respect and whom I have been reading since I was a young student. 109018
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I actually did request a table in the introduction of a politics/history manuscript recently, but it was an unusual situation. 000
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroUniversity of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Shop our 125th Anniversary Sale! Save 40% to 75% off a wide range of University of Toronto Press titles, from award-winning scholarship to nonfiction reader favourites. Shop the sale until Feb 15: bit.ly/UTP125SALE #NonfictionBooks #NonfictionReads #BookSale #UniversityPress #AcademicBooks 033
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Coming to #MLA26 in Toronto this week? Come by the @uoftpress.bsky.social booth to see our newest titles. If you want to meet to discuss a book project in German, Eastern European, or Eurasian literary studies, send me an e-mail. 011
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I think authors sometimes second-guess themselves by trying to name people whose (positive) opinion they think would impress their editor. We mostly already know those names. These names are a chance to tell your editor whose (anonymous) feedback would make a difference to you and your writing. 020
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroNOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 26/08/2025In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px 1/3 #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory 195
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks. 12916
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroBehnaz Mirzai @behnazmirzai.bsky.social · 09/06/2025My book launch @dependencybonn.de on June 12 follows by a reception!! See you if you are around. 165
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroDr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025It's always so exciting to see how the field of Central Asian studies is shaping. But for this particular book, I've been waiting for Stawkowski's study for a long time since we first almost coincided at ASEES almost a decade ago. I knew of Magdalena's fieldwork utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...utppublishing.com“They Think We Are Stupid”: Reinventing Kazakh Tradition | Atomic CollectiveView all available purchase options and get full access to this chapter. 231
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Excited to be headed to the book expo at Congress 2025 on Monday #congreSSH @federationhss.ca. If you want to talk about titles in history or European and Eurasian studies, send me an email or drop by the @uoftpress.bsky.social booth 021
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroJames J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Receiving fresh copies of a book you’ve worked on – it never gets tired. Berlin‘s Third Sex by Magnus Hirschfeld, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social 2354
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroAmerican Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Today, ACLS announced the finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards: bit.ly/3Fr4PA3 These $50,000 prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023.bit.lyACLS Announces Finalists for 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing AwardsTwenty books advance to final round of $50,000 prize for open access titles in the humanities 1114
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroThe H-Net Book Channel @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The European Accessibility Act goes into effect in June. Publishers selling digital products. such as e-books, in the EU must ensure their products meet accessibility standards. Mary Lui explains for #FeedingTheElephant what authors and publishers need to know. ➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...networks.h-net.orgThe European Accessibility Act: What You Need to Know | H-NetA guest post from 032
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroJames J. Conway @jamesjconway.bsky.social · 14/05/2025It was on this day that Magnus Hirschfeld was born (1868) and died (1935), so it’s a good time to tell you my translation of his utterly groundbreaking 1904 study of sexuality and gender, “Berlin’s Third Sex”, has just been reissued by @uoftpress.bsky.social. This is also good timing because … 🧵 1135
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Going to the Canadian Association of Slavists conference in Edmonton next week? So am I. Want to talk about a book project? Send me an e-mail and we can find a time to chat (I won't have a book exhibit) 000
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Honestly, it feels like the ostensible request here is never what actually gets attention. It's either reversion to the status quo with a big for-profit multi-national or a radical structural shift. 000
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025If a for-profit provider is an issue, there are even multiple non-profit platforms that offer perpetual access. And have for decades. One of them offers it even if you cancel all your ongoing agreements with them! Another permits local archiving for use if you no longer have an agreement. 100
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Reading yet another opinion piece on the Clarivate pivot-to-subscriptions and it's starting to get to me. May I humbly suggest, even if just a short-term measure, mentioning that you can spend your money with publishers and platforms that *do* offer perpetual access? 120
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Importantly, Clarivate left themselves a substantial fallback position. Their Rialto platform still lets libraries do perpetual access purchases on sites other than Ebook Central. According to the Rialto website, that's 23 sites, some of which are multi-publisher platforms themselves. /2 000
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Not to be flip, but its probably a bit of both. Very few presses are large enough to pick only one platform/strategy. That's one reason the Clarivate/ProQuest decision to drop non-subscription acquisitions on Ebook Central made such waves. /1 100
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Publishing's not a bad fit for HSS graduate students, but these articles are always about books/journals, rather than being the copy-editor for the state lottery and gaming commission (the instructor in my c/e class) or proofreader for financial marketing collateral (my first freelance gig) 000
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroPhilip Tuxbury-Gleissner @dr-tg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!sqsjournal.org Slavic Queer Studies 0138
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025New ebook storefront, associated with Bookshop.org. Interesting that's it'll pull from a non-Ingram source too (unless I'm missing something about Draft2Digital)bookshop.orgBookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community. 000
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroYuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 07/01/2025A great-looking conference featuring the African and Asian perspectives on writing histories of the Holocaust from (post/de)colonial contexts, far beyond Shanghai and other better-explored “peripheries.” www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...hsozkult.deAfrican and South Asian Histories of the HolocaustThis workshop brings together scholars of Africa and South Asia to explore the intersections of African, South Asian, and Jewish experiences of the Holocaust. It will focus on historical encounters, i... 141
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroJen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Thrilled for Andrea and for the field! uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...uwaterloo.ca2023 Book Prize Winner - Andrea Rottmann | Waterloo Centre for German Studies2023 Book Prize Finalist 041
Reposted by Stephen ShapiroSébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024This is wonderful and so well deserved!!! 😍 I had the chance to review it and it was one of my favourite books in queer history of the last decade!uwaterloo.caAndrea Rottmann Wins WCGS Book Prize 2023 | Waterloo Centre for German StudiesWCGS Book Prize 2023 Winner - Andrea Rottmann 061
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024And a big thank-you to the Freie Universität Berlin and Andrea for making that happen. 010
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024An Open Access electronic copy of the book is available at utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....utppublishing.comQueer Lives across the Wall - University of Toronto PressDesire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 1163
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Congratulations to Andrea Rottmann, whose book "Queer Lives across the Wall" (@uoftpress.bsky.social) won the 2023 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-g...uwaterloo.caWCGS Book Prize | Waterloo Centre for German StudiesThe Waterloo Centre for German Studies promotes research into any and all aspects of the German-speaking world. 1123
Stephen Shapiro @sshapiro-editor.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I guess I'm trying Bluesky for a bit, so let's start with news you can use. @uoftpress.bsky.social has a new website utppublishing.com and that website comes with a big backlist sale: 1800 titles are all 75% off with the code WINTERSALE75 from now until January 6.utppublishing.comUniversity of Toronto PressCan't sign in? Forgot your username? 020
