Your Textbook Deserves Recognition: Apply For a TAA Award

You’ve put so much time and passion into your textbook. Now is the time for that work to be recognized by nominating it for one of TAA’s industry-respected awards:

Most Promising New Textbook Award: this award recognizes promising textbooks and learning materials in their first edition.
Textbook Excellence Award: this award recognizes excellence in current textbooks and learning materials.
McGuffey Longevity Award: this award recognizes long-standing textbooks and learning materials that have been in print for at least 15 years.

2025 TAA Textbook Award Nominations are open until November 1. Don’t miss out on receiving the recognition your published textbook deserves.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Kiley Thornton, Director of Membership and Programs, at kiley.thornton@taaonline.net.

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Chemeketa Press Seeks Textbook Proposals

Chemeketa Press, a nonprofit textbook publisher located in Salem, Oregon that makes affordable, effective, engaging, and accessible textbooks, is seeking submissions of new textbook proposals and faculty editor grant applications through October 15, 2024.

Chemeketa Press publishes textbooks across a variety of disciplines.In this reading period, textbook proposals for original material or OER adaptation are sought, as well as faculty editors for two public domain series, the American Voices Collection and Primary Text Editions, and themed anthologies.

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Larson Texts and Big Ideas Learning Unify Under a Single Brand Identity

Larson Texts and Big Ideas Learning, founded by TAA member and multiple TAA Textbook Award winner Dr. Ron Larson, announced the unification of its two brand identities to Big Ideas Learning, a Larson Texts Company.

Both companies are leaders in K-Higher-Ed math education. According to a September 20, 2024 press release, Larson’s “contribution to mathematics education is monumental. From the publication of his first Calculus textbook in 1978 to the foundation of Big Ideas Learning, his vision has always been to make math accessible and engaging for students.”

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WIPO Publishes Contracts Toolkit for Authors and Publishers

The World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO) has published a new toolkit for authors and publishers that includes “a checklist of the most essential considerations while drafting and concluding a contract.”

Contracts in Publishing: A Toolkit for Authors and Publishers, was drafted by Brian Wafawarowa, Chairperson of the Publishers Association of South Africa (PASA), and Isobel Dixon, a renowned South African poet and Head of Books at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency in the UK, in consultation with several international author and publisher organizations.

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2024 TAA Textbook Award Winners Share Insight, Inspiration

Fifty-six textbooks were awarded 2024 Textbook Awards by TAA, representing more than 100 authors. We recently reached out to these award-winning authors asking several questions, including how they fit writing time into their schedule, what pedagogical elements in their textbook they are most proud of, and what they wish they had known before they started writing their textbook. We hope their answers provide insight and inspiration for your writing projects.

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Cengage Seeking New Textbook Authors

Cengage, the leading provider of higher education materials, is currently seeking new textbook authors across all disciplines to join its creative team.

“While we’re eager to collaborate on full-length narratives, we’re equally interested in working with writers on smaller, focused projects as well,” said Erika Longstreth, Cengage’s Author Relations Manager. “If you’re a writer looking to contribute your unique viewpoint, whether through a comprehensive narrative or more targeted endeavor, we’d love to hear from you.”

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