2008 TAA Conference Early Registration Deadline has been extended to May 15!
This extension does not apply to the early registration drawing for one of three one-hour mentoring sessions.
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Download and print this 2008 TAA Conference informational flyer, containing information about how to register and book your room at Harrah's; conference workshops and sessions; the Awards Ceremony; and the Conference Schedule.
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TAA Conference one-hour mentoring session winners announced
Michael Spiegler, Patricia Casey and Courtland Bovee are the winners of the early conference registration drawings for three one-hour mentoring sessions to be held at the 2008 TAA Conference at Harrah's in Las Vegas, June 19-21. To be entered into the drawing, you had to register for the conference by May 1.
Spiegler won the one-hour mentoring session with Authoring Attorney Michael Lennie. Casey won the one-hour mentoring session with Tara Gray, presenter of the TAA-sponsored workshop, "Publish & Flourish: Become A Prolific Author." Courtland Bovee is the winner of the one-hour mentoring session with Authoring Attorney Stephen Gillen.
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TAA welcomes new members
Salah Aly, Prashanti Chennamsetti, Deepti, Chandrakanth Emani, Ana Goulart, Jim Ji, Teresa Jimarez, Miguel Juarez, Sarel Lavy, Maria Irene Moyna, Chandrika Rajagopal, Humayun Rashid, Jane Reimers, Boris Ricks, Kendra Riebschleager, Kanu Tripathi, and Edward White
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Greetings!
TAA has extended the Early Registration Deadline for the 2008 TAA Conference in Las Vegas, June 19-21 to May 15.
Early Registration fees are $195 for members. Registration will go up to $245 after May 15.
The deadline for reserving a room at Harrah's at the low conference rate of $99 is May 19. The room block is filling up fast. Call Harrah's at 888-458-8471 and use the special group code SHTEX8.
The TAA Conference is a great place to gain knowledge about textbook and academic authoring and to network with fellow authors. This year's conference includes a special session with publishers.
I hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Kim Pawlak
Associate Executive Director
Text and Academic Authors Association
Send me an email
(608) 687-3106
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TAA Teleconference Series
Tips, tricks for the do-it- yourself indexer
Sign up for the free TAA Teleconference, "Tips & Tricks for the Do-It-Yourself Indexer", moderated by Seth Maislin, a professional indexer and managing partner of Potomac Indexing, Inc., on Thursday, May 8 at 1 p.m. Central Time.
Writing an index isn't just the last thing an author has to do. It's the last thing an author wants to do. Maislin has prepared a list of insider secrets to getting that index out of the way fast, and without compromising quality. This seminar is chock full of time-saving nuggets like "Leverage the TOC," "Cross-Reference? Wait-Reference!," and "Netting the Page Number Swarm." Written specifically for the do-it-yourself author-indexer, this teleconference might just pique your interest, too.
Sign up Listen to a recording of "Don't Settle For a Publisher's Standard Contract: Terms You Can & Should Negotiate" moderated by Authoring Attorney Stephen Gillen: Listen Now
Listen to a recording of "A Coach's Perspective on Finishing a Dissertation" Teleconference moderated by Dave Harris: Listen Now
Listen to a recording of "Royalty Q&A" Teleconference moderated by Paul Rosenzweig, former president of Royalty Review Service: Listen Now
Listen to a recording of "Publish & Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar" Teleconference moderated by Tara Gray: Listen Now
Suggest Topics for the Fall TAA Teleconference Series
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TAA conducting royalty rate survey
TAA members should have received TAA's Royalty Rate Survey in the mail last week.
The deadline for receipt of surveys is June 1.
TAA plans to announce the results at the 2008 TAA Conference in Las Vegas, June 19-21. A copy of the report will be distributed to each person who fills out the survey.
You can also fill out the Royalty Rate Survey online
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Society for Scholarly Publishing to hold annual meeting May 28-30
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) will be holding its 30th Annual Meeting, "Empires of the Mind: Inventing the Future of Scholarly Publishing", May 28-30 in Boston. The SSP Annual Meeting is an informative three-day event providing educational and networking opportunities for publishers, editors, librarians, scholars, printers, agents, wholesalers, booksellers, and other participants.
A pre-meeting seminar, "Digital Preservation", will be held Wednesday, May 28 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.. The seminar will give an update on developments in digital preservation from the perspectives of all the major stakeholders: publishers, librarians and e-archiving vendors. The seminar will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn what is happening in the area of digital preservation for both current and backfile content.
For more information, visit the SSP website
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Notable Author Profile: Bradley Fahlman
A well-known researcher and teacher in his field of chemistry, Bradley Fahlman believed it was "perfect timing" for a textbook on materials chemistry. This intriguing possibility for Fahlman evolved into his first textbook, Materials Chemistry. It was published by Springer in August 2007. Less than one year later, the textbook is going into a second printing. It's scheduled to be translated into Chinese and Russian in 2008 to 2009. Fahlman's Materials Chemistry is a 2008 recipient of a Textbook Excellence Award from TAA.
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TAA announces Council election results
Mathematics author Don Collins has been elected TAA vice president/president-elect. Collins will serve a two-year term as vice president beginning July 1 and succeed Paul Siegel as TAA president in 2010. Siegel, who is TAA's current vice president/president-elect, will succeed John Wakefield as TAA president on July 1. Paul Rosenzweig, who has served two terms on the TAA Council, has been elected TAA Treasurer. New TAA Council members are Tara Gray, Barbara Waxer, and Fred Kleiner.
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Publishers file suit against Georgia State University for copyright infringement
A group of publishers filed suit in federal court in April to stop widespread copyright infringement at Georgia State University (GSU). The complaint, filed by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and SAGE Publications and supported by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), charges that GSU officials are violating the law by systematically enabling professors to provide students with digital copies of copyrighted course readings published by the plaintiffs and numerous other publishers without those publishers' authorization. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief to bring an end to such practices, but does not seek monetary damages.
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Scholarly publishing on the world wide web
"Working Papers", a graduate student publication of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Romance Languages, has a Q&A roundtable discussion entitled "Wikidemia? Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web" on the "Working Papers" website.
The Roundtable explores such questions
as is online publishing a relevant vehicle for academic writing?; How will it affect the way we read, write and pursue our professional interests?; Will current publishing practices become obsolete, and if so, when can we expect to read the last words of offline print culture?
Read more on the "Working Papers" website
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Amazon announces all POD books sold on site must use own POD house
As of April 1, online book seller Amazon is requiring small publishers to sign a contract agreeing to print all print-on-demand (POD) books sold on Amazon's site by Amazon's own POD house, BookSurge. The American Society of Journalists and Authors, the nation's trade association for freelance nonfiction writers, said in an April 4 press release that it is "disgusted" with Amazon's announcement.
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