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Subscribe to TAA Listservs
Subscribe to one or both of TAA's Listservs, one on textbook authoring and one on academic authoring.
Subscribe to the Textbook Authoring Listserv by sending an email to TAATextbookAuthoring-on@mail-list.com
Subscribe to the Academic Authoring Listserv by sending an email to TAAAcademicAuthoring-on@mail-list.com
You can switch to the Digest version of the Textbook Authoring Listserv, in which you receive only one email message per week with all that week's posts contained within it, by sending an email to TAATextbookAuthoring-switch@mail-list.com
once you have been subscribed.
To switch to the Digest version of the Academic Authoring Listserv, send an email to TAAAcademicAuthoring-switch@mail-list.com once you have been subscribed.
After you are subscribed to the Textbook Authoring Listserv, send messages to TAATextbookAuthoring@mail-list.com
After you are subscribed to the Academic Authoring Listserv, send messages to TAAAcademicAuthoring@mail-list.com
Read the archives for both Listservs here
If you have any questions, please email Kim Pawlak
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TAA Gift Memberships
You can give a TAA Gift Membership for only $15.
Providing a gift membership to a family member, friend, student or colleague is a great way to assist them with their writing and show your support for TAA's mission.
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Greetings!
The Fall 2009 TAA Teleconference season was a success, with more than 150 members participating in nine teleconferences.
I want to thank all the presenters for volunteering their time and expertise to our members!
If you weren't able to participate in the live teleconferences, all of them are available as downloadable mp3 recordings from the TAA website.
We have already begun planning sessions for the 2010 Spring Teleconference Series (Feb-April) and welcome your topic suggestions. If you would like to volunteer to present a session, please contact me at (608) 687-3106 or kim.pawlak@taaonline.net
And, as always, please feel free to contact me anytime.
Sincerely,
Kim
Kim Pawlak
Associate Executive Director
kim.pawlak@taaonline.net
(608) 687-3106
(507) 459-1363 cell
www.TAAonline.net
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Call for proposals for 2010 conference
The 2010 TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring will be held in Minneapolis, MN, June 24-26 at the Ramada Mall of America.
The theme of the 2010 Conference is "Recent Trends in Textbook and Academic Publishing."
The deadline for the call for proposals is January 4, 2010.
Learn more: click here
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Think your publisher is 'quartering' your royalties? Get a free audit
There has been much discussion on the TAA Textbook Authoring Listserv with regard to something calling "quartering," which is described as the publisher selling the rights to translate the author's work to an affiliate or subsidiary, then collecting 50% of the receipts from that license. Since the stated royalty rate is usually half the "regular" rate, getting 50% of half supposedly yields "quartering".
To satisfy the concerns of those members who feel they have been disadvantaged by their publisher, Rosenzweig has offered to undertake a preliminary royalty review for any TAA member, at no cost to an author who believes he or she has been subjected to "quartering".
Learn more: click here
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TAA member John (Jack) Ivancevich dies
John (Jack) Michael Ivancevich died Monday, October 26, 2009. Ivancevich, a long-time TAA member, was a professor at the University of Houston (UH) for 35 years, where he was selected for the Hugh Roy and Lilly Cranz Cullen Chair of Organizational Behavior and Management in 1979. He authored 88 books, including Organizational Behavior and Management; Business: Principles, Guidelines, and Practices, Business for the 21st Century; and Foundations of Personnel: Human Resource Management. The 11th edition of his Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes, won a TAA McGuffey Longevity Award in 2005.
"TAA is saddened to learn of his passing," said Richard T. Hull, Ph.D., TAA's executive director. "He was an exemplar of the fine and honorable tradition of textbook authoring for us all. TAA joins Jack's friends and family in their grief at his death. His works will remain in TAA's pantheon of excellence."
Read more: click here
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ACTION ISSUE
TAA members asked to make opinions on govt-published 'free' textbooks known
TAA Executive Director Richard Hull asks members to help the Association of American Publishers with their efforts to amend a bill (HR 3221) that would allow the government to produce online course materials. The AAP argues that quality online materials are already readily available, and the government would be hurting authors, publishers, and the hundreds of companies involved in developing and distributing online materials - and students - by competing with them.
Learn more: Click here
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Book Review:
The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure-Without Losing Your Soul
Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Howard
The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure-Without Losing Your Soul presents a realistic portrayal of the many challenges facing African American junior faculty at universities across the country.
The authors provide critical insight into the experience of the black assistant professor by acknowledging the racial politics that emerge in academia, and how departmental politics are often tied to race and ethnicity. Instead of avoiding the difficult topics and issues, Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy discuss how black assistant professors, in their quest for tenure, sometimes experience isolation, double standards in the classroom, hostility, the excessive burden of mentorship, alienation and exclusion from networks. The authors also point out how multiculturalism and diversity programs are not always the answer and that in some cases have led to color blindness, where university administration has thus ignored the complexities of race that remain salient in spite of these initiatives.
Read full interview
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How a copy editor can help you polish your work
by Laura Poole
As a professional freelance copy editor, I have the pleasure and honor of working with publishers and authors of scholarly titles. I have known authors who resisted copy editing (or any kind of editing), and publishers who won't pay for a thorough edit of a manuscript. Sadly, these occurrences generally result in inferior work being published.
You may wonder why you should work with an editor at any stage of your writing. Working with an editor that you hire can help prepare your book for a publisher by making it clearer, effective, and easier to read. Most reputable publishing houses will have copyediting done as part of the process of publishing to clean up your text and make sure it conforms to the publisher's style.
Read more: click here
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TAA NOTES
Busy TAA People: Frank Christ
The Journal of Developmental Education published "Learning Center Issues, Then and Now: An Interview with Frank Christ" in the Spring 2009 issue (pp. 24-27). The JDE had published an interview with Christ 30 years ago and this interview attempted to show the changes in the field of learning assistance at the college level.
TAA thanks Sustaining, Contributing Members
Thank you to Sustaining Members Jane E. Aaron, Karen, Morris and Wayne L. Weiten.
Thank you to Contributing Member Wayne Wolsey.
Two more editors offer editing discounts to members
Archer Editorial Services and Ann Greenberger have joined several other editors in offering discounted editing services to TAA Members. Learn more about Archer Editorial Services, Ann Greenberger, and other companies offering discounts to members:Click here
Members receive discount on book printing
New TAA member HX Book Printing is offering fellow members 10 percent off its book printing services. Learn more:Click here
Apply or nominate someone for membership in TAA's Council of Fellows
TAA is calling for applications and nominations for induction into its Council of Fellows, which recognizes distinguished authors who have a long record of successful and diversified publications. Candidates should be authors whose textbooks or academic articles or books have established their presence in their field. Learn more: click here
Recordings of 2009 TAA Fall Teleconferences
Recordings of 2009 TAA Fall Teleconferences are now on the TAA website:
- "Generating & Refining Research Ideas, Parts One & Two"
- "Textbook Supplements: The Big Three" "Textbook Supplements: Electronic Products"
- "How Authors Can Navigate Successfully Through Copyright-Related Issues" "Making the Most of the Author-Editor Relationship: Insights From An Author & Editor"
- "Using Social Media to Promote Your Writing & Your Personal Brand"
- "Learn About Sisters of the Academy Institute (SOTA): Scholarly & Professional Development for Black Women"
Recordings are free for members. Non-members pay $69 for each recording.
Listen to or download teleconference recordings: click here
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INDUSTRY NEWS
DeepDyve offers research rental service
Sunnyvale, California-based Deepdyve
recently launched a research rental service that provides researchers with access to a database of more than 30 million scientific, technical and medical articles for as little as $.99 per article. DeepDyve offers free search and preview, automatically displays a list of suggested articles based on a user's profile, and links to related content with every search result and article page. The company is offering a free 14-day trial.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to offer 100% recycled textbooks
Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, which publishes textbooks for pre-K-12 grades, is printing its Go Math! Textbook series using one hundred percent recycled material. Already being offered in Florida, Go Math! will be available nationally in spring 2010. Click here for more
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DISCLAIMER: TAA has not tested and neither endorses nor opposes any product or procedure recommended in this article or ones referenced in any TAA publications, teleconferences, or workshops.
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