Perseus drops namesake imprint

LearningExpress looks to academic sales

Noam Chomsky (media studies), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wroteMiddle East Illusions Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood (Rowman & Littlefield). John W. Creswell (research design), University of Nebraska, Lincoln , wrote the second edition of Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches (Sage). Dawn Gerrain, 12 years at Delmark Learning, was named vice president for career education strategic business.

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School paperback sales climb

Scholastic ranks high for women workers

NEW YORK, February 12, 2003 -- Publishing house Scholastic was named the second best company in the United States for women executives by the National Association for Female Executives. Avon was first. The association said Scholastic has more women than men in senior positions. Among criteria for the ranking was actively retaining women by "offering opportunities to grow and advance, and a work culture where they can prosper -- and have a life."

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Book people protest Internet access limits

Random House grows with German deal

GÜTERSLOH, Germany, February11, 2003 -- The German media company Bertelsmann bought the Ullstein Heyne list from fellow German publisher Axel Springer to strengthen its position in the German trade book market. The list will be absorbed in the Bertelsmann-owned Random House German language list Verlagsgruppe Random House. What this means for authors: Nothing for academic authors unless they coss over into trade book writing. The deal further signals Bertelsmann move away from educational and academic publishing.

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Elsevier to explain journal retractions

NEW YORK, February 11, 2003 -- Academic journal publisher Elsevier Science laid out new procedures for posting notices when it retracts an article from its ScienceDirect database because of plagiary or other problems. Spokesperson Daviess Menefee said an explanation will be posted when an article is retracted so journal users will understand the problem. The notice will include a link to the original article, which usually will remain on the site but with a watermark indicating it has been retracted, Manefees said. Elsevier had been criticized for purging aricles and then posting a cryptic note that said only, "For legal reasons this article has been removed by the publisher." Manefes acknowleged that users deserve more explanation. Manefees said articles will be retracted if submitted to multiple journals, if plagiarized, if based on fraudulent data, or if a claim to authorship is bogus. From now on, he said, articles will be purged only if defamatory, if there is an infringement on someone's legal rights, if a court order is likely, or if a serious health risk could result. In such cases, he said, only the title and author's name will remain in the database, and readers will be told that the article has been removed for legal reasons.

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13-digit ISBNs may be coming

Saundra Hybels (communication), Lock Haven University, and Richard L. Weaver II (communication), Bowling Green State University, wrote the seventh edition of Communicating Effectively (McGraw-Hill). James Spradley (anthropology) and David W. McCurdy, (anthropology), Macalester College, wrote the 11th edition of Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology (Allyn & Bacon). John Stewart (communication), University of Dubuque, wrote the eighth edition of Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication (McGraw-Hill).

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Scholars perceive intellectual freedom threats

Oxford likely Grove dictionaries buyer

LONDON, February 9, 2003 -- Oxford University Press is the front-runner to acquire the Grove dictionaries business from Macmillan, according to press reports.

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Scott Foresman to sell EasyTech in Texas

BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 8, 2003 -- El-hi publisher Scott Foresman will sell EasyTech classroom management products, manufactured by Learning.com, in Texas under an exclusive statewide agreement, the company said. EasyTech was designed to help teachers integrate technology into curriculum.

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John E. Anderson (economics), University of Nebraska, Lincoln, wrote Public Finance (Houghton Mifflin). Keith Johnson (music), University of North Texas, wrote the third edition of Brass Performance and Pedagogy (Prentice Hall). Walter Kiechel, senior vice president and editorial director at Harvard Business School Publishing, was named editor-at-large. His job: Liaison with the university's business faculty to develop new markets.

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Triumph aims for new test markets

Management buys Riverdeep control

DUBLIN, Ireland, February 7, 2003 -- An investor group led by two officials at educational software company Riverdeep bought out the Dublin-based company. The group, bearing the name Hertal, agreed to pay 24 percent more than the company's closing stock price on a given date. Hertal is managed by Riverdeep chair and chief executive Barry O'Callaghan and board member Patrick McDonagh. The company's stock has been battered for months in the investor disillusionment with technical issues in general. Riverdeep, whose investors include giant publisher Reed Elsevier, includes Edmark, purchased from IBM; Gores Technology, purchased from the Learning Company; and Broderbund. All were acquired since 2000.

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Wiley Prize to four gene scholars

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, February 7, 2003 -- Four gene researchers, all published scholars, won the Wiley Biomedical Sciences Prize for contributions to discoveries of novel mechanisms for regulating gene expression. The winners: Andrew Z. Fire, Carnegie Institution and Johns Hopkins University. Craig C. Mello, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Thomas Tuschl, Max-Planck Institute, now at Rockefeller University. David Baulcombe, Sainsbury Laboratory. The Wiley Prize, now in its second year, recognizes contributions that have opened new fields of research or have advanced novel concepts. The prize carries a $25,000 grant.

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R.I.P: Anatomy author Sandy Grabowski

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, February 6, 2003 -- The human anatomy and physiology academic community was saddened as word spread that Sandra R. Grabowski, a prominent textbook author and scholar, had died. Death was attributed to complications from cancer of the appendix. Grabowski, 59, was a founding member of Human Anatomy and Physiology Society, one of the first editors of the society's HAPS Educator, and a past president of the society. She had held a faculty appointment in biology at Purdue University. Her influence as an educator was perhaps greatest as co-author, with Gerard Tortora, of the college textbook Principles of Anatomy and Physiology. The book, published by Wiley, is in its 11th edition. It has just been issued in a four-volume set. Grabowski and Tortora also wrote Introduction to the Human Body: The Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, in its fifth edition, also Wiley. The books have been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese. Her husband Zbiginew, a retired Purdue physics professor, said she "had a love affair with anything that suggested an aquatic environment." She was an exuberant swimmer, boater and health advocate, he said. She died Jan. 20.

GRABOWSKI Purdue University 10TH EDITION Anatomy and Physiology FIFTH EDITION Introduction to the Human Body

SA2 site carried 74 January items

2002 college text sales up 12.9%

WASHINGTON, February 5, 2003 -- Despite dreary sales for the U.S. book industry in December, college textbook sales soared. The latest monthly report from the Association of American Publishers shows a 8.3 percent gain, compared to December a year earlier, with sales of $606.8 million. For all of 2002, college sales were ahead 12.9 percent. Here are the year-to-date AAP data through December, extrapolated from 74 member-publishers, for genres in which academic authors write: College STM, professional University press (soft) El-hi University press (hard) 12.9 percent 8.9 percent -1.4 percent -5.0 percent -8.6 percent

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Gary W. Heiman (statistics), Buffalo State College, wrote the fourth edition of Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Houghton Mifflin). Bennett Reimer (music), Northwestern University, wrote the third edition of Philosophy of Music Education: Advancing the Vision (Prentice Hall). Gary Thibodeau (anatomy and physiology), University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and Kevin Patton (anatomy and physiology), St. Charles Community College, wrote the fifth edition of Anatomy and Physiology (Mosby).

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New York exams still bowdlerized

Harcourt Ed job cuts: 350

ORLANDO, Florida, February 5, 2003 -- El-hi publisher Harcourt Education confirmed that it had laid off or accepted early retirements from 350 employees to address a surprise drop in school adoptions. The cutback eliminates 11.6 percent of Harcourt's 3,000 jobs nationwide. Layoffs totaled 270 and early retirements 80. The cuts came after Crispin Davis, chief executive at parent Reed Elsevier in London, said declines in U.S. school adoptions made for a "difficult business climate." Harcourt was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2001 for US$5.3 billion. Reed subsequently sold Harcourt's higher-ed and professional business to Thomson Learning but kept other units, including the Orlando-based el-hi and testing components.

HARCOURT EDUCATION EARLIER ARTICLE Harcourt layoffs to total fewer than 400

Mark Ballora (music), Pennsylvania State University, wrote Essentials of Music Technology (Prentice Hall). Jamie Henke (music), University of Wisconsin-Madison, wrote Musical Pallette (Atomic Dog). Jack Snowman, (psychology), Southern Illinois University, and Robert Biehler wrote the 10th edition of Psychology Applied to Teaching (Houghton Mifflin).

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Paul Rosenzweig R&M Royalty Review "The causes of the royalty statement errors at major publishing houses are 80 percent stupidity, 20 percent cupidity. In smaller publishers, the percentages are usually reversed. In the majors, the incidence of errors starts climbing almost geometrically in connection with the mergers, acquisitions and other transactions where titles move from the house in which they were originally contracted." You can find other answers to authors' questions from veteran royalty auditor Paul Rosenzweig in an interview by Christine Larson for the American Society of Journalists and Authors, which is posted at Author Voices Full index: Author questions

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EXCITING STUDENTS ABOUT TEXTBOOKS: To avoid a student disconnect between their lectures and textbooks, professors can talk-up the textbook. Here, veteran textbook author John Vivian suggests ways to help students appreciate the value of their textbooks. Among his suggestions: Assign reading the first class, schedule frequent quizzes, and, to be sure, don't bad-mouth the author. You can read Vivian's full column in SA2's collection "Author Voices" VIVIAN FULL ARTICLE

"Save Libraries" campaign under way

Robert M. Knight (journalism), Gettysburg College, wrote the second edition ofA Journalistic Approach to Good Writing: The Craft of Clarity (Iowa State University Press). Michael D. Oates (French), University of Northern Iowa, and Larbi Oukada (French), Indiana University, Indianapolis, wrote the fourth edition of Entre amis: An Interactive Approach (Houghton Mifflin). Robert W. Ottman (music), University of North Texas, wrote the fifth edition of Advanced Harmony: Theory and Practice (Prentice Hall).

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McGraw upgrades Lange med site

NEW YORK, February 4, 2003 -- McGraw-Hill launched of a series of clinical references in the AccessLange.com suite. "With the new Clinical Reference Series, subscribers can get quick answers, prepare for exams and presentations, review fundamentals, or focus on case management and other clinical concerns," said Michael Hays, publisher. Included are case studies, clinical trials, and patient profiles, all cross-referenced with an integrated up-to-date drug database, and advanced searching tools, he said. The series provides physicians with diagnostic, research, and case management tools in support of cost-effective, quality patient care. It also is designed for med students for test preps.

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NovaNET math, language units upgraded

MESA, Arizona, February 3, 2003 -- Pearson Education Technologies released 66 new multimedia lessons in math and language arts for its NovaNET comprehensive courseware system. NovaNET is an online, standards-based curriculum and assessment system for middle and high school pupils. The math release covers fractions, addition, and subtraction. The language arts lessons include writing, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, word usage, vocabulary, and research strategies.

PEN launches radio show on censorship

Harper authors to see 20-30% back-royalties gain

NEW YORK, February 2, 2003 -- The proposed out-of-court settlement on behalf of HarperCollins authors will mean a 20 to 30 percent increase in royalties on the affected export sales for the 5-1/2 years covered by the case, according to calculations by the Authors Guild. These would be back-royalties on the deep-discounted sales that Harper made to its companies in Australia, Britain and Canada. An exception would be titles that haven't earned out their advances. What this means for authors: If you're an affected Harper author, you can calculate roughly what you are due under the proposed settlement. Check your royalty statements issued in 1994 through 1999 and multiply your Canadian earnings by .2 for a low-end rough figure. Then multiple by .3 for a rough high-end figure. There may also be some additional back-royalties from sales in other foreign countries, but 80 to 90 percent of affected sales were Canadian so those are the best indicators of what you would have coming.

CON- TRACTS HARPER COLLINS EARLIER ARTICLE Harper settlement called best for most authors

Bertelsmann to sift Springer offers

GÜTERSLOH, Germany, February 2, 2003 -- Media giant Bertelsmann confirmed 12 offers have made been made for its BertelsmannSpringer science and business publishing unit. Bertelsmann said the bids were from both publishers and investment bankers but didn't identify them. The company said it will sift the bids for the half-dozen most promising and then open its books to those remaining bidders to refine their offers. Meanwhile, press reports say suitors include STM rivals Thomson, Reed Elsevier, Thomson and Wolters Kluwer, and investment bankers Cinven-Candover Partners and Soros Private Equity Partners. All offers, according to reports, are less than the US$1.1 billion that Bertelsmann intends to hold out for.

BERTELSMANN SPRINGER EARLIER ARTICLE Bertelsmann Springer draws seven bidders

Robert Perrin (writing), Indiana State University, wrote the sixth edition of The Beacon Handbook and Desk Reference (Houghton Mifflin). Paul A. Konowitch, managing director at Gabelli Group Capital Partners, was named vice president of business development at Haights Cross Communications. His responsibilities: Developing new revenue outside of existing Haights Cross customer/market niches. Joel A. Kazmierski (botany), State University of New York Institute of Technology at Delhi, wrote Exercises for the Botany Laboratory (Morton). Joe Stuessy (music), University of Texas at San Antonio, and Scott D. Lipscomb (music), Northwestern University, wrote the fourth edition of Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic (Prentice Hall).

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McGraw-Hill: Revenue grew 3.1 percent to $4.8 billion for the latest fiscal year, compared to a year earlier. Net income for improved 53.1 percent to $576.8 million.

New editor at community college journal

Pearson will ride testing rise

BOSTON, Massachusetts, February 1, 2003 -- Pupil testing encouraged under the new No Child Left Behind legislation will mean 50 percent more state-sponsored testing by 2006, according to textbook publisher Pearson Education. This will mean 8 to 9 percent growth for Pearson, which is a major player in testing, the company said. At a news briefing, Pearson pegged federal spending on el-hi testing will reach $20 billion, perhaps $24 billion.

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Freedberg's Lynx wins scholarly book award WASHINGTON, February 1, 2003 -- A Columbia University art historian, David Freedberg, was chosen for the Association of American Publishers annual Hawkins scholarly book award for his The Eye of the Lynx. The book, with 83 color plates and 89 halftones, is drawn from Freedberg's discovery of hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise 17th-century drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. He made the discovery in a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and later found thousands more across Europe. Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization in Italy, the Academy of Lynxes, founded in 1603. He subtitled the book Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History. The University of Chicago Press published the work. The R.R. Hawkins Award bears the name of the former science and technology librarian of the New York Public Library. Judges included a retired librarian, a former bookseller, and retired publishers who were former academics. Other scholarly and professional awards announced by AAP:

DAVID FREEDBERG The Eye of the Lynx

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