Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 March 2014.

Under the leadership of then 1st vice president and program chair Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, the 2014 AAAL conference had as one of its focal areas the changing scene of publishing in a digital and global age. Within an array of offerings addressing the theme, this three-hour invited colloquium, organized by Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University, and Emily Farrell, of De Gruyter Mouton, explored trends and challenges especially pertinent to the work of applied linguists.