TAA member Michael Sullivan recently released the 10th edition of his Precalculus Series. The four-book series consists of College Algebra, Algebra & Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Trigonometry. Published by Pearson Education, the series aims to
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: April 17, 2015
There are SO many great articles in this week’s most useful textbook & academic writing posts! I’m so excited about…
The most useful textbook & academic writing posts of the week: February 13, 2015
“Don’t be afraid to write crap because crap makes great fertilizer.” This quote by Jessica Brody not only put a…
Amazon offers new tool for creating etextbooks, Kindle Textbook Creator
Amazon has a new tool, Kindle Textbook Creator, to help educators and authors prepare, publish, and promote etextbooks and other educational content that can be accessed on Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Android smartphones and tablets, Mac, and PC.
Kindle Textbook Creator, offered through the new KDP EDU segment of Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, can be used to turn PDFs of textbooks and course materials into Kindle books and upload them to KDP in just a few simple steps.
Forming a publisher relationship: 6 Strategies for building rapport
In the first part of this three-part series, I described how product acquisitions works, and in the second part I…
Forming a publisher relationship: 3 Steps for submitting your project
In the first installment of this three-part series, “Forming a publisher relationship: The acquisitions editor”, I provided a perspective on…