Starting with the first edition, physical geography textbook author Robert Christopherson developed an editorial style guide specific to his books.…
3 Tips to succeeding as a textbook author
TAA Council member Michael Sullivan recently authored a new textbook entitled CALCULUS, Early Transcendentals. Published by W. H. Freeman and…
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Mike Kennamer currently serves as Director of Workforce Development at Northeast Alabama Community College and is President/CEO of Kennamer Media…
Textbook proposal tips: Read publishers’ author guidelines
Most textbook publishers provide instruction on their website in the form of author guidelines for developing a book proposal that…
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Tax tips for authors: Understand foreign taxes, tax credit and tax certification
If you have sold your textbooks in foreign markets, foreign publishers may withhold foreign taxes at the source before the money is paid to your agent and before it is paid to you. If they are doing that, and you earned, for example, $10,000 in a foreign country, 10 percent, or $1,000, will have been withheld from your payment. Your agent would have received $9,000, and withheld his 15 percent commission on the $10,000 you actually earned. So you would end up getting about $7,500.