Making Learning Mobile

Jun 5, 2016 | News

When students return to campus this fall, chances are good they won’t bring a laptop to class but instead will carry a smartphone. Students and faculty alike are looking to the ubiquitous handhelds to enhance learning. Educator and editor Michael Greer says if we are...

The Technology of the Book

Feb 28, 2016 | Digital Transformation

New technologies engage the human mind in many ways.  Depending on one’s perspective, the latest gadget is either a miracle or a menace. Michael Greer, who teaches the online course The Technology of the Book: Past, Present, and Future for the University of...

Transcript: The Technology of the Book

Feb 26, 2016

Interview with Michael Greer Recorded at PubWest 2016 Conference, Santa Fe, NM For podcast release Monday, February 29, 2016 KENNEALLY: New technologies engage the human mind in many ways. Depending on one’s perspective, the latest gadget is either a miracle or...

PW’s Publishing Person of the Year

Dec 4, 2015 | News

Literary figures as disparate as Germaine Greer and Hunter S. Thompson, Bret Easton Ellis and Margaret Thatcher, appear together on his publishing resume. Now, Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, can add...

The New Editors

Jan 5, 2014 | Podcasts

What is an editor? That question, posed at a roundtable discussion at the recent PubWest Conference in Santa Fe, elicited surprising new answers. In the digital age of publishing, the job description for “editor” is shifting, morphing, and growing larger, agreed...

Transcript: The New Editors

Jan 3, 2014

Interview with Michael Greer Recorded at the 2013 PubWest Conference, Santa Fe for podcast release Monday, January 6, 2014 KENNEALLY: At the annual conference of PubWest, the organization representing many publishers around the West and across the United States, this...

Best of BTB: What Students Can Teach Textbook Authors

Jun 9, 2013 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, Events

On June 21 -22, CCC joins the Text & Academic Authors Association (TAA) for its annual conference with an educational presentation on copyright. This week’s CCC podcast features textbook editor Michael Greer, whose research has found that students have a lot to...

BTB #329: What Students Can Teach Textbook Authors

Nov 18, 2012 | Digital Transformation, Events

Today’s readers – students especially – have high expectations of e-books and other digital media. Ever-evolving technology for tablets and e-readers makes the race to keep up a daunting one for publishers and authors. The leap from printed page to pixel-ed screen...

Transcript: What Students Can Teach Textbook Authors

Nov 14, 2012

Interview with Michael Greer For podcast release Monday, November 19, 2012 KENNEALLY: Today’s readers have high expectations of e-books and other digital media. Ever-evolving technology for tablets and e-readers makes the race to keep up a daunting one for publishers...

BTB #195: Usability Studies in Textbook Design

Nov 14, 2010 | Best of VOC, Digital Transformation, News, Podcasts

“We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in the way people read,” declares textbook editor and former English professor Michael Greer. Collaborating with Prof. Tharon Howard of Clemson University, Greer has contributed to the just-published collection,...