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Alerts this year: | January 5 | January 12 | January 15 | January 19 | February 2
Earlier alerts: | 2002 | 2003 |
NEWS ALERT
Issued to SA2 members by e-mail on February 2, 2004
R.I.P.: FRANK SILVERMAN. Diagnosed with brain cancer he knew the end was coming, but Frank Silverman kept on writing. He died at 70. Details
FREE REPRODUCTUON. A federal appeals court says educational materials cannot be reprinted without permission even in the news media. Details
JOURNAL PRICING. Tough negotiating, backed up by scholars fed up with journal pricing, forced Elsevier to cut its library subscription package to the University of California by 8.7 percent -- to a mere $7.3 million the first year. Details
PATRIOT UPDATE. Booksellers are asking customers to sign a petition to rid the Patriot Act of a provision that allows government agents to secretly check bookstore records for customer purchases. Details
GALE UPHEAVAL. The transition into more K-12 publishing isnšt coming easily at Thomson's Gale. Now the president has quit. Details
KILL THE MESSENGER. Religious scholar James Laine of Macalester College is a wanted man in India, where his book on a 17th century Hindu icon has been seen as blasphemy and sparked violence. Details
VIVENDI DEAL OK'D. Finally the European Commission will allow Lagardere to buy Vivendi's remaining French-language publishing enterprises. But there are conditions. Details
A LEANER MCGRAW. McGraw-Hill sold its 5,000-title Children's Publishing Group and is leaving the children's supplementary field. Details
BIBLE IN CLASSROOM. If a California petition succeeds to allow the King James version as a textbook, will pupils be reading fewer texts by current authors? Details
MILESTONE. Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz wrote the 11th edition of Contemporary Business. Details
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NEWS ALERT
Issued to SA2 members by e-mail on January 19, 2004
PSYCH PEERS. Allyn & Bacon will choose "faculty advocates" to spread the word about using its MyPsych psychology supplements. Details
DUMBING DOWN. Textbook publisher Mary Ellen Lepionka argues in the SA2 Authors' Voice series that authors take a bad rap from critics who say their work is dumbed down. Her column
DOUBLE DOUBLE-DIGIT. A monitoring study found stock in publicly held book publishers soared an average 26 percent in 2003. Details
FREE CUBANS. The American Library Association called on Cuba to free librarians who jailed for the books they stocked in home lending libraries. Details
INSITE-FUL WRITING. Wadsworth has created an all-in-one electronic program, InSite, to manage the student research and writing process. Details
SPEEDIER MS. REVIEWS. Journal publisher Kluwer is adding TechBooks software to abbreviate the time between article submission and publication. Details
THE LIBRARY CHILL. Librarians speaking at their national convention said the Patriot Act has a chilling effect on freedom of inquiry. Details
COPYSHOP SEES FUZZINESS. A copyshop being sued for copyright infringement says coursepack reproductions are no different from interlibrary loans. Copyright law is fuzzy, as the shop argues it. Details
MILESTONE. Arnold J. Goldman and William D. Sigismond wrote the sixth edition of Business Law: Principles and Practices. Details
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NEWS ALERT
Issued to SA2 members by e-mail on January 15, 2004
BYE, BYE, IOWA STATE. The corporate owner of Iowa State University Press, Blackwell Science, retires a venerable name. Details
PEARSON HELMLESS. Pearson Education chief Peter Jovanovich is on extended medical leave with a heart problem. Details
GALE: ADIEU TO NEW YORK. Education and reference publisher Gale cut 180 jobs, one out of six, and is moving out of New York. Details
LESS THAN ZERO. After a $1 million fraud fine, once high-flying Vivendi chief Jean-Marie Messier is starting over. Details
SOFT BOOK MARKETS. Publishing executives agree that 2004 will continue as a weak sales year. Maybe 2005 will be better, though not great. Details:
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MILESTONE. David K. Eiteman, Arthur I. Stonehill and Michael H. wrote the 10th edition of Multinational Business Finance. Details
MILESTONE. Charles W. L. Hill and Gareth R. Jones wrote the sixth edition of Cases in Strategic Management. Details
MILESTONE. Michael Melvin wrote the seventh edition of International Money and Finance. Details
HIGHER TECH. A new scanner can digitize 1,200 book pages an hour. Details
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NEWS ALERT
Issued to SA2 members by e-mail on January 12, 2004
WHAT FOREIGN SALES REALLY COST YOU. Textbook authors are getting a mere 25 cents on the dollar on foreign web sales -- a real and growing problem. Do the math
IF YOU DON'T ASK. When her publisher asked if Cathy Crimmins wanted to buy the last few copies of her book from the warehouse, she said: "Couldn't you just return them to me for free?" They did. Details
FRONT MATTER TIPS. Here's an extract on frontispieces and other front-of-book stuff from master-author Frank Silverman's latest book. How-to tips
PRE-PUBLICATION BARGAIN. SA2 members may buy Frank Silverman's new book, Self-Publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials, at half-price from Atlantic Path. Details
BOOK JOBS. Bracing for major employee turnover in 2004 and 2005, publishers are out recruiting. Details
NEW BOOK OR ARTICLE LATELY? Let SA2 share your good news with a blurb in our Academic Authoring People feature. Send us details
TALBY PRIZE. Nominations are open for the 2004 Talby Prize for excellence in textbook visuals. Details
ONE MILLION EBOOKS. Ebook sales will top 1 million easily when the 2003 sales data are compiled, including titles from education publishers that are testing the water. Details
FUTURE FOR GEOGRAPHY? A leading geographer says the field needs a guiding light to become relevant again -- or end up a discarded discipline. Details
AUTHOR LAW. Two Dallas city officials who didn't laugh when a magazine poked fun at them have sued, renewing the question about whether satire leaves authors vulnerable. Details
MILESTONE. Arnold J. Goldman and William D. Sigismond wrote the sixth edition of Business Law: Principles and Practices. Details
MILESTONE. Terry Hirschberg wrote the fifth edition of One World, Many Cultures. Details: Details
MILESTONE. David K. Eiteman, Arthur I. Stonehill and Michael H. Moffett wrote the 10th edition of Multinational Business Finance. Details
MILESTONE. Charles W. L. Hill and Gareth R. Jones wrote the sixth edition of Cases in Strategic Management. Details
MILESTONE. Michael Melvin wrote the seventh edition of International Money and Finance. Details
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NEWS ALERT
Issued to SA2 members by e-mail on January 5, 2004
CONTRACT ALERT. The foreign sales provision in textbook contacts may become a major drain on author royalties with growing trans-border sales of discounted books back to the United States. What you can do
YEAR-END REVIEW. John Vivian's annual year-ender wraps up the major news for academic authors. Top 10 stories
YOUR BOOK A WINNER? Nominations are open for the 2004 Talby Prize for excellence in textbook visuals. Details
USED BOOKS. The Society of Academic Authors called on Amazon.com to police used-book postings to eliminate instructor editions and manuals. Details
TEXTBOOK PRICING The textbook industry is facing a possible federal investigation into pricing. Details
ANOTHER ADOPTION STATE. The Arizona Legislature is considering whether to make the state the 21st to have state-level schoolbook adoptions. Details
DUMBED-DOWN TEXTBOOKS. Communication author Robert Hood argues that integrating new and familiar terminology is good pedagogy and takes a bad rap as dumbing down. His assessment
CUBAN LIBRARIANS. The Society of Academic Authors encouraged the American Library Association to take a strong position against government assaults on free libraries in Cuba. Details
DEAD IN WATER. Latest monthly sales figures show hardly any growth for college and el-hi textbooks for 2003. Details
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