Robert W. Christopherson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at American River College (1970-2000). He is the author of the leading physical geography texts in the U.S. and Canada all published by Pearson Prentice Hall. He and his nature photographer wife Bobbe have completed twelve expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic regions since 2003, gathering information and photos for his books, Geosystems, 9/e, Elemental Geosystems, 8/e, Geosystems Canadian Edition, 4/e, and Applied Physical Geography, 9/e.
Michael Sullivan releases new edition of his Precalculus textbook series
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
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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…