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Authoring books and materials for students, academics, and professionals

Author: Franklin H Silverman
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text offers a guide to the process of becoming an author, through negotiating a contract to marketing the final book. Topics include: selecting appropriate publishers; drafting a proposal;  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Silverman, Franklin H., 1933-
Authoring books and materials for students, academics, and professionals.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998
(OCoLC)607003529
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Franklin H Silverman
ISBN: 0275961591 9780275961596 0275961605 9780275961602
OCLC Number: 37890500
Description: x, 161 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Qualifications Necessary for Authoring a Textbook or Other Academic or Professional Book or Material --
Potential Benefits and Losses: Financial and Other --
Choosing a Publisher --
Proposals --
Negotiating a Publishing Contract and a Joint Collaboration Agreement --
Doing the Project --
How Textbooks and Other Educational and Professional Books and Materials Are Marketed --
Tax and Other Business Implications of Authorship --
A Representative Book Proposal --
A Representative Joint Collaboration Agreement --
Textbook Features That College Students Do and Don't Find Helpful --
Standard Proof Correction Notation --
Common Characteristics of Best-Selling Textbooks.
Responsibility: Franklin H. Silverman.

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