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	<title>Writing College Textbook Supplements &#187; College Textbook Prices</title>
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	<description>Freelance Writing for College Textbook Publishers: Instructor Manuals &#124; Test Questions &#124; Student Study Guides &#124; Companion Sites &#124; Lecture Outlines &#124; PowerPoint Presentations &#124; Internet Exercises &#124; Lab Manuals &#124; Copyediting &#124; Find Editors &#124; Win Assignments &#124;</description>
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		<title>College Students Prefer Print Textbooks to E-Books</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2011/01/10/college-students-prefer-print-textbooks-to-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least according to the results of a recent survey sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group. Nearly 75% of the respondents say they would rather purchase the old-fashioned paper product than a new-fangled electronic version. Why is this important to college textbook publishers? Major companies like Pearson Education and Cengage Learning and the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act Will Fight Online Piracy of Textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online piracy of college textbooks is major problem for higher education publishers and textbook authors. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, a bill before Congress, would help the federal government fight this theft of intellectual property. The Text and Academic Authors Association (I&#8217;m a member) released this press release discussing the legislation: The Text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Costs of College Textbook Supplements to Students, Textbook Authors, and Publishers</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/09/02/costs-college-textbooks-supplements-students-authors-publishers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found an interesting article on the Inside Higher Ed website by Kenneth Green. Green examines the difficulties facing the current model of publishing textbooks and what factors drive up costs. He also addresses how the necessity of supplying essentially free supplements/ancillaries affects the author, the publisher, and the students: The ancillaries would be essential, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Textbook Price Controversy Addressed at the New York Times</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/07/30/college-textbook-price-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/07/30/college-textbook-price-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=1093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last week about the impact of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 on college textbook publishers, professors, students, and bookstores. (And my thanks for the insightful comments; please add yours to that post.) The New York Times now has a feature in which several people wrote essays examining different aspects of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textbook Publishers and Colleges Affected By Higher Education Opportunity Act</title>
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		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/07/24/textbook-publishers-colleges-higher-education-opportunity-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Regulation of Textbook Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education Opportunity Act]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 created regulations affecting college textbook publishers and colleges and universities regarding what information they give to students and professors regarding textbook updates and prices; the regulations also require that textbook publishers offer textbooks without bundling. Bundling refers to including CDs, DVDs, website passcodes, and other ancillaries and supplements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macmillan&#8217;s DynamicBooks Lets Professors Customize the Content of College Textbooks</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/02/22/macmillans-dynamicbooks-lets-professors-customize-the-content-of-college-textbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/02/22/macmillans-dynamicbooks-lets-professors-customize-the-content-of-college-textbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bedford-Freeman-Worth College Textbook Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Major College Textbook Publishers-Publishing Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Supplements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Macmillan, one of the major college textbook publishers, just announced the launch of DynamicBooks, which will allow professors to customize textbooks. Profs will be able to make major changes to textbook content: Professors will be able to reorganize or delete chapters; upload course syllabuses, notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and perhaps most notably, rewrite or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Law: All College Textbooks Must Have E-Book Versions by 2020</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/27/california-law-all-college-textbooks-must-have-e-book-versions-by-2020/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/27/california-law-all-college-textbooks-must-have-e-book-versions-by-2020/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government Regulation of Textbook Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Supplements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California State Senate Bill 48]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/?p=738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[California just passed a law that requires textbook publishers to provide e-book versions of all college textbooks by 2020. Here&#8217;s the relevant passage from California State Senate Bill 48: This bill would require that publishers of textbooks offered for sale at a public or a private postsecondary institution of education make the textbooks available, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College Textbooks: How Students Can Save Money</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/20/college-textbooks-how-students-can-save-money/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2010/01/20/college-textbooks-how-students-can-save-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Wiley and Sons College Textbook Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearson Education College Textbook Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of American Publishers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cengage Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college teachers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the important functions of this blog is following major trends in the college textbook publishing industry. There&#8217;s been a strong move toward providing multiple formats of textbooks for college students, especially digital e-book versions. Ideally, students can save money while publishers continue to make good profits. The Association of American Publishers recently issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What College Textbook Publishers Want and How You Help Them Get It</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/09/21/what-college-textbook-publishers-want-and-how-you-help-them-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/09/21/what-college-textbook-publishers-want-and-how-you-help-them-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Textbook Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freelance Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major College Textbook Publishers-Publishing Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pay Levels for Writing College Textbook Supplements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Ancillaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Supplements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing College Textbook Supplements Ebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[College textbook publishers are in business, so first and foremost, they want to make profits. If they don&#8217;t make profits, they will go out of business. Publishers typically make profits by selling high-quality textbooks and other instructional materials that are in demand by professors. As a writer of college textbook ancillaries and supplements, you must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cengage Learning to Rent College Textbooks</title>
		<link>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/08/20/cengage-learning-to-rent-college-textbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://writingcollegetextbooksupplements.com/blog/2009/08/20/cengage-learning-to-rent-college-textbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Major College Textbook Publishers-Publishing Companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wadsworth Textbook Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cengage Learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cengage Learning, one of the largest publishers of college textbooks, has decided to start renting textbooks to college students at 40-70% of the new price. College students typically aren&#8217;t happy about shelling out the 100-bucks-plus for the typical textbook, so they frequently buy used books at the college bookstore. Cengage Learning says that textbook authors [...]]]></description>
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