Why Colson Whitehead, Alexander Chee, and more have criticized the nonprofit for a “copyrights grab” in a time of crisis.| Slate Magazine
It may seem as if it would be difficult to defend or justify a blatant piracy operation like Sci-Hub. But it can be done, if you’re willing to overlook certain facts and advance certain tenuous moral arguments.| The Scholarly Kitchen
I resigned from West Virginia University, where I directed the university press, in spring, and several days later I heard through an intermediary that the university might be interested in retaining me. I responded by proposing half a dozen measures in areas like staffing that would, I hoped, ensure continuity and support for WVU Press’s authors. In exchange for allowing WVU Press to avoid the uncertainty and tumult of the university’s| derekkrissoff.substack.com
An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role ...| University of Minnesota Press
