Michael Spiegler is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Providence College. A successful textbook and academic author for…
How to negotiate royalties for a textbook test bank
Q: “I am in the process of negotiating my second contract to write a test bank. The first contract was for a flat fee. I wrote a total of 490 multiple choice, true/false and fill in questions for a 14 chapter criminal justice book. The book was going into its 3rd edition and I think it is a big seller.
How I work the 12 steps of Publish & Flourish: An interview with Tara Gray
Tara Gray, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Criminal Justice and founding director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University. She has published more than 30 articles and three books including Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar.
Here Gray discusses how she incorporates her 12 steps to Publish & Flourish into her own writing process.
What you need to know about using third party photos
Today’s business models for licensing third party photography are sufficiently complex that it’s worth taking a few minutes to review…
Maintain an open ‘ancillary idea file’ for your textbook
As an author of several textbooks and ancillaries over a couple of decades, Kevin Patton, professor of Life Science at…
How MOOCs can offer opportunities for textbook sales
The rapid rise in popularity of massive online open courses (MOOCs) may benefit students and textbook authors alike by increasing…