December is here! As much as I’m not a winter person, I do love the month of December—Christmas lights, cookies,…
2016 TAA Textbook Award nominations deadline is December 1
Gain recognition with your fellow authors and within the textbook publishing industry by nominating your textbook for a 2016 TAA Textbook Award. The nominations deadline for the 2016 Textbook Excellence Award (“Texty”), McGuffey Longevity Award (“McGuffey”) and Most Promising New Textbook Award is December 1.
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: November 20, 2015
November is rapidly coming to a close. How are you progressing with your #AcWriMo goals? Are you finding work-life balance?…
How to build effective collaboration
As a graduate student or early career academic you likely have a packed schedule. Trying to get published can be a daunting task, especially when you feel you have to do it alone. But maybe you don’t have to. If you can find the right person or persons to collaborate with, say doctoral students Tracey S. Hodges and Katherine Landau Wright, you are less likely to be stressed, and more likely to be productive and on the path to publishing success. Hodges and Wright share the following advice for effective collaboration:
Learn about the latest court rulings in the Google Books Case
On October 16th, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favor of Google and against the Authors Guild in a copyright infringement case that began 10 years ago over Google’s controversial book scanning project. Listen to a recording of The Copyright Clearance Center’s webinar, “A New High-Water Mark on Transformative Use? Update on the Google Books Case”, with attorney Lois Wasoff on the latest court rulings in the Google Books Case.
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: November 13, 2015
This week celebrated University Press Week. Even if you missed most of what this week offered, you can still join…