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North Dakota ponders textbook "payola"| BISMARCK, North Dakota, September 30, 2003 -- The North Dakota Board of Higher Education gave preliminary approval to a policy barring professors from profiting from the textbooks they assign. The goal is to prevent payola from publishers in influencing adoptions, said board member Ralph Kingsbury. He referred to a Chronicle of Hgher Education article that reported a small publisher had offered as much as $4,000 to professors who would assign its book and then write a report on how well it worked. The practice is unusual. Whether Kingsbury intended to halt the modest honorariums that publishers commonly pay for pre-publication manuscript reviews was unclear. The honorariums typically are $250 to $500 and do not require classroom adoption. |
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Louisiana College yanks two texts| PINEVILLE, Lousiana, September 30, 2003 -- The president of church-operated Louisiana College, William Rory Lee, ordered books assigned to students in two courses be removed from the campus bookstore because the content "clashed with Christian values." Lee said the content of thebooks came to his attention when a student and a college trustee complained. At issue, he said, was profane language in The Road Less Traveled, a self-help book by M. Scott Peck, assigned by professor Constance A. Douglas of the English Departmemt for a philosphy course. Also at issue was a love scene in A Lesson Before Dying, a novel by Ernest Gaines, assigned by professor Frederick Downing, a religion professor for a religion course. Douglas objected: "Students can't pursue truth unless they have the freedom to ask questions and to read literature that reflects all of human experience." |
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Bookseller: Ashcroft blind to bad history| WASHINGTON, September 24, 2003 -- The president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Chris Finan, says U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is ignoring history in claiming that the governemt would enver abuse civil liberties with the 20012 Patriot Act. "The FBI has a history, which Attorney General Ashcroft is ignoring, of violating civil liberties," sais Finan called on Ashcroft to join booksellers in their effort to amend to Patriot Act to so FBI agents can't conduct secret inquries in people;s reading habits by going into library and bookstore records. "Our concern that this could happen again certainly has precedent and historical support," Finan said. "The question of whether or not there have been any bookstores searched at this point gives us cool comfort." Ashcroft said the Patriot Act's authority for bookstore and library searches has never been used -- although a Univerity of Illinois study found otherwise: 200-plus searches in a two-month period in 2002. |
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Ashcroft message baffles library leader| WASHINGTON, September 24, 2003 -- The executive director of the American Library Association, Emily Sheketoff, is perplexed that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft says both that the government doesn't need Section 215 of the Patriot Act and that he wants to keep it. Section 215 allows secret government searches into library and bookstore records to check on people' reading habits, ostensibly to protect national security. Noting that Ashcroft has recently claimed that librarians are hysteric over Section 215 and that governmment agents have never used it, Sheketoff said it would seem that Ashcroft should be supporting the American Librarians Association to amend the Patriot Act. To the contrary, Ashcroft has bene traversing the country to rally support against Patriot Act critics. Sheketoff bristled at Ashcroft's accusation that librarians are spreading "baseless hysteria" about the Patriot Act. Said Sheketoff: "You know librarians. We're not a scary bunch." |
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Gift to Congress: Banned books| WASHINGTON, September 23, 2003 -- In celebration of Banned Books Week, the president of the Association of American Publishers, Pat Schroeder, presented bags with copes of the currently most-challenmged books to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert. In a note accompanying the gift books bags Schroeder said that "worthy and relevant books" are being purged from school classrooms and libraries z"becausesomeone finds something about them offensive." Such censorship inevitably lose in court, but while the legal battles are being waged, people, especially youngsters, are denied access to books that educate, enlighten and even encourage them to read more." Schroeder encouraged Frist and Hastert to enjoy the gift books and share them with colleagues. |
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Pearson, Wiley on Working Mothers list| NEW YORK, September 23, 2003 -- Education publishers Pearson and Wiley were named to the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers list by Working Mother magazine. Pearson is on the list for the fourth year in a row. Women comprise approximately 60 percent of Pearson Education's workforce while the majority of its first-line managers are women. Working Mother cited Wiley for a wide range of flex scheduling options and working "with employees on how to use them." Women comprise 53 percent of managers and 33 percent of executives at Wiley. Three top women, all senior vice presidents, are working mothers. | | |
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| H. Allen Fernald, on the Wiley board of directors since 1979, retired at the mandatory age 70. Elected to the board was Matthew Kissner, a Pitney Bowes executive, and William Plummer, an Alcoa executive. |
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| Gregory Moorhead (business), Arizona State University, and Ricky W. Griffin (business),Texas A&M University, wrote the seventh edition of Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations (Houghton Mifflin). |
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Thomson issues new clinical handbooks| TORONTO, Ontario, September 22, 2003 -- Reference publisher Thomson l,aunched a clinical handbook series drawn from its Physicians' Desk Reference the drug information reference. The handbooks will be supplied free on an annual basis to 500,000 practicing doctors complements of Abbot Laboratories. Pharmaceutical rep will distribute the handbooks at conventions and physician office calls. |
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Pearson now owns LessonLab 100%| BOSTON, Masschusetts, September 22, 2003 -- Schoolbook publisher Pearson acquired LessonLab, which produces technologies for teaching and professional development. Terms were not announced. Pearson Education had already held a minority share in LessonLab. LessonLab producessoftware and video tapes on teaching methods. | | | |
Kinko's returns to coursepack trade| DALLAS, Texas, September 21, 2003 -- The copyshop Kinko's chain, which banished itself from the coursepack business after an embarassing copyright infringement suit in the 1990s, is re-entering the market. The company has launched CoursePack Solutions, a service to be offered with the custom publishing service at the University of Southern California. Coursepack will include only materials whose content has been cleared with the auithors or publishers who own the rights, Kinko's said. |
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Ashcroft: Patriot Act critics hysteric| CHICAGO, Illinois, September 20, 2003 -- The president of the American Library Association, Carla Hayden, confirmed that Attorney General John Ashcroft had telephoned her to say he would declassify information on FBI searches of library and bookstore records in the hunt for terrorists. For months Ashcroft has refused to do so, even to a Congressional oversight committee, prompting wider opposition to 2001 Patriot Act provisions that allow agents to search records for reader buying and borrowing habits. Meanwhile, Ashcroft has continued his coast-to-coast tour to defend the Patriot Act. In one speech, he said critics of the act are hysteric. "The fact is, with just 11,000 FBI agents and over a billion visitors to America's libraries each year, the Department of Justice has neither the staffing, the time nor the inclination to monitor the reading habits of Americans. No offense to the American Library Association, but we just don't care." Ashcroft said the provision has been not been used to date -- even though a 2002 University of Illinois survey of more than 1,000 libraries found federal or local agents had gone to 85 libraries in a two-month period seeking information on patron reading habits. |
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| Susan Ko (education), Sylvan Online Higher Education, and Steve Ross (education), University of California at Los Angeles, wrote the second edition of Teaching Online: A Practical Guide (Houghton Mifflin). |
| Julie McGee, most recently president at the Basal and Testing Publishing Group at McGraw-Hill Education, was named chief executive of the new Supplemental, Professional and Trade Divsion at Harcourt. |
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| Belverd E. Needles, Jr. (business), DePaul University, and Marian Powers (business), Northwestern University, wrote a new edition of Financial Accounting (Houghton Mifflin). |
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Digital Learning enhances NovaNet tool| MESA, Arizona, September 19, 2003 -- School publisher Digital Learning introduced a norm-referenced 6-12 assessment series, the Basic Achievement Skills Inventory, in its NovaNet program. The new tool helps answer "the need for increasingly sophisticated tools that help schools demonstrate compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act," said Sandra Lassiter, product manager. Enhancements include 105 new multimedia lessons with modernized graphics and a more attractive and intuitive interface, Lassiter siad. The enhancements encompass 48 grammar, 32 vocabulary, and 25 science lessons. | | | |
Wiley touts college text successes| HOBOKEN, New Jersey, September 18, 2003 -- Textbook publisher Wiley attributed 6 percent higher-ed revenue growth in its first quarter to market growth in the life sciences due to a strong front list, as well as solid performances of the physical sciences and social sciences programs. In a report to shareholders, Wiley specifically cited the performance of recent revisions, including Donald E. Kieso's Intermediate Accounting, in its 11th edition; Karen Huffman's Psychology, in its seventh edition; Davison's Abnormal Psychology; and Sandra Grabowski's Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, in itd 10th edition. Industry-wide conditions in engineering continue to be weak, the company said in reference in disappointing sales of its engineering list. The company was optimistic anout prospects for the sixth edition of Cutnell and Johnson Physics, the first textbook built using Wiley's new technology platform, known as Edugen. This platform enables Wiley to deliver integrated content that is organized around teaching and learning activities. |
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TeacherVision repertoire passes 100 books| BOSTON, Massachusetts, September 17, 2003 -- The preK-12 web site TeacherVision.com is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a library of 100-plus downloadable books for all reading levels, the company said. The library, called Books On The Run, iincludes lessons, activities and teacher aids for history, holidays, language arts, math, social studies, science.. |
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Text, other sales continue gainsWASHINGTON, September 16, 2003 -- Although hardly stellar, the year so far remains only of steady growth for textbook and scholarly publishers. University presses continued toward recovery. Here are domestic net sales through July for genres in which academic authors do most of their work:
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"Between the Lions" wins gold award| UPPER SADDLE, New Jersey, September 16, 2003 -- The PBS children's series "Between the Lions," adapted for use on Pearson Digital Learning's KnowledgeBox K-6 digital learning system, won the Parents' Choice Gold Award as the Best Children's Television Show for the 4-7 age group. The show has won the award twice in three years on the air. "Between the Lions" programming has been transformed into more than 150 standards-based lessons delivered through the KnowledgeBox learning system. Lessons phonemic awareness, text comprehension, phonics, fluency and vocabulary. | | | |
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Publishers support Patriot Act revisions| WASHINGTON, September 15, 2003 -- The Association of American Publishers welcomed the introduction of a Senate bill designed to restore civil safeguards that the publishers claim are undermined by the post-9/11 Patriot Act. The bill, introduced by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, would restore the legal safeguards againsy government searches of library, bookstore and other personal records that have been stripped away by Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. The legislation would require the government to show "specific and articulable facts" demonstrating a reason to believe that the individual whose records are sought is a suspected terrorist. The president of the Association of American Publishers, Pat Schroeder, said the Patriot Act has serious First Amendment problems: "If bookstore customers and library patrons believe that government investigators can easily obtain their records, they will stop reading works they fear may expose them to government scrutiny." |
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Houghton finance chief resigns| BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 14, 2003 -- The senior vice president and chief financial officer at Houghton Mifflin, David Caron, announced that he will resign November 1. The resignation is the latest in the exit of executives and editors in the post-Vivendi turnoil at Houghton, although Caron explained his departure in upbeat terms: "With the company in great shape and prospering, I want to devote more time to my family." Caron joined Houghton in 1996 as assistant controller. He was made divisional vice president, controller, in 1997, when he was also elected a corporate vice president. He became chief financial officer in 2001 and senior vice president in 2002. While the company seeks a successor, Sylvia Metayer will oversee the finance department. Right now Matayer is serving as interim chief executive officer until Tony Lucki arrives from Harcourt in October. |
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R.I.P.: Frederick A. Hetzel| PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, September 13, 2003 -- The retired director of the University of Pittsburgh Press, Frederick Hetzel, 73, died of complications of rheumatic arthritis. Hetzel joined the Press in 1961 and expanded its publishing schedule from 30 to 50 books a year with special attention to poetry. He retired in 1994. He established the $15,000 Heinz Prize for literature and the $5,000 Starrett Prize for poetry. Ironically, Hetzel often commented that he didn't read poetrty himself. |
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California Press journals going online| BERKELEY, California, September 13, 2003 -- The University of California Press will turn over its journals to Atypon Systems to create full-text online editions. All the scholarly society journals produced by University of California Press will be transferred to Atyphonıs Literatum electronic publishing system. The Press assured publishers that the software gives them control over content production, and packaging. Literatum already is used by the Academic Press Ideal Library, Blackwell Publishing, Annual Reviews, and CrossRef's enhanced reference
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U.S., French act against Messier deal| PARIS, September 12, 2003 -- The U.S. Securities and EXchange Commission asked a New York judge to halt a US$23.4 million golden parachute deal for former Vivendi chief executive Jean-Marie Messier until it checks into allegations of financial faud. The agency wants the money put in escrow. The agency is investigating possible violations oif federal law by "dirertors, officers, partners, controlling persons, agents or employees" during the Messier regime. Meanwhile, in Paris, where Vivendi is headquartered, the stock market regulator, Commission des Operations de Bourse, reported there were breaches of rules during the Messier era. |
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Books most eyed by would-be censorsWASHINGTON, September 12, 2003 -- The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom said these were the books most frequently challenged in 2002 as inappropriate for library shelves:
The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling, for its focus on wizardry and magic.
The Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, for being sexually explicit, using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
. The Chocolate Warby Robert Cormier (the "Most Challenged" book of 1998), for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, for sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence and being unsuited to age group.
Taming the Star Runner by S.E. Hinton, for offensive language.
The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey, for insensitivity and being unsuited to age group, as well as encouraging children to disobey authority.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, for racism, insensitivity and offensive language.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, for offensive language, sexual content and Occult/Satanism.
. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, for insensitivity, racism and offensive language.
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, for sexual content, offensive language, violence and being unsuited to age group.
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Banned Book Week coming up| WSHINGTON, September 10, 2003 -- The American Library Association has scheduled the annual Banned Book Week, which it co-sponsors, for September 20 to 27. The theme this year: "Open Your Mind to a Banned Book." The association's Office of Intellectual Freedom said it has learned about 515 attempts to remove books from library shelves in 2002 -- down from the average of 383 since tracking began in 1990. |
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Von Hoffman to acquire Lehigh Press| ST. LOUIS, Missouri, September 9, 2003 -- St. Louis-based printer Von Hoffmann paid $110 million to buy Lehigh Press. Lehigh's work includes book component printing. Robert Matthews, chief eecutive at Von Hoffman, said the two companies are compatible in that they have similar traditions, business philosophies, industry positions as well as "world-class organizations and employees with complementary capabilities and services." Lehigh will continue to operate separately and will remain in New Jersey. |
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Discovery buys United Learning| EVANSTON, lllinois, September 8, 2003 -- Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications acquired United Learning, whose product line includes 2,000 audiovisual educational items and services in all core curriculum areas. Terms were not announced. United Learning will be combined with the existing in-school activities of Discovery Channel School, which provides digital media content to the K-12 market. Discovery, which draws its content largely from Discovery Networks programming, has more than 600 videos, CD-ROMs and print resources for schools. |
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Collegiate Press sells 16-title list| LANHAM, Maryland, September 7, 2003 -- Academic publisher Rowman & Littlefield bought Collegiate Press, owned by authors Courtland Bovée and John Thill of San Diego, California. Terms of the deal were not announced. Collegiate Press had 16 titles in the humanities and social sciences, many in multiple editions. Jed Lyons, president and Rowman & Littlefield said the acquired titles will mesh well with Rowman's books in the same subject areas: "The acquisition of the Collegiate list advances our strategy of growing both organically and through the acquisition of other academic and textbook houses in the subject areas we concentrate in." Thill and Bovée, who founded Collegiate Press in 1987, will not make the move to Rowman & Littlefield. |
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| Conrad Cherry (religion), at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, emeritus, Betty A. DeBerg (religion), University of Northern Iowa, and Amanda Portfield (religion), Florida State University, wrote Religion on Campus (University of North Carolina Press). |
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Making Mathcad easy for authors| NEW YORK, September 6, 2003 -- The Mathsoft Engineering & Education web site has added resources designed to help authors and publishers who want to include the company's Mathcad features in their books. There also are tips for college teachers for research and cirricula using Mathcad. |
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Holt web programs in Florida tablet test| ORLANDO, Florida, September 5, 2003 -- Schoolbook publisher Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Microsoft and Hewlitt Packard are testing tablet computers and web-based curriculum in the Ococee Middle School. A suite of Holt Online Learning programs in science, social studies and language arts are being used. Pupils have full-time web access. |
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McGraw to handle Harvard med titles| NEW YORK, September 4, 2003 -- McGraw-Hill will be the exclusive publisher of Harvard Medical School health books for consumers under its McGraw-Hill Professional imprint. The titles, wall to be authored by faculty physicians at Harvard, will includewomenıs health, best practices for specific illnesses, and mental health. The series launches next year. About 10 books a year areplanned. |
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Wiley taps Cognia for science job| HOBOKEN, New Jersey, September 3, 2003 -- Book publisher John Wiley & Sons chose Cognia Corporation to distribute the Wiley Chemical Concepts life science and chemical database products within its Cognia Molecular information management system. Cognia Molecular is a relational database enabling users to store and integrate information.. |
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South-Western buys marketing titles| MASON, Ohio, Septemebr 2, 2003 -- The Thomson imprint South-Western bought the American Marketing Association's professional books to sell in a co-branding agreement. Key titles include James Myers' Positioning for Strategic Marketing Decisions. Also included is the three-volume Marketing Scales Handbook. Terms were not announced. AMA members will continue to be eligible for discounts on the co0bfranded titles. |
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Lagardere-Vivendi deal on ice| BRUSSELS, September 1, 2003 -- The European Commission frustrated at delays in receiving information, has halted its review of a plan for French book publisher Lagardere to acquire Vivendi's European publishing operations. A Commission spokesperson said the last commission request, sent July 2, is still unanswered. The spokesperson referred to "repeated problems" getting information out of Lagardere. Meanwile, Vivendi is eager for cash for the deal to ease pressure from its lenders. Already Vivendi has unloaded its U.S. publishing arm, Houghton Mifflin. Also, Vivendi has narrowed bidders for its U.S. movie, television, music and theme parks empire to NBC and a consortium led by Edward Bronfman Jr. |
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| Fred Forsyth, chief operasting officer and president at NewRoads, was named chief operating officer, overseeing product development, engineering and worldwide manufacturing and logistics, at LeapFrog. |
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| Larry Kirkpatrick (physics), Montana State University, and Gregory E. Francis (physics), Montana State University, wrote the fifth edition of Physics- A World View (Brooks/Cole). |
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College store sales grow 4.1%| OBERLIN, Ohio, Sept. 1, 2003 -- Sales at college stores during Fiscal 2002 increased 4.1 percent to $11.1 billion, according the National Association of College Stores. Based on data from 283 stores, the association said stores reporting both space and occupancy costs had occupancy costs averaging $34 per square foot and net income averaging $41 -- an overall gain of $7. The survey included stores whose sales ranged from $102,000 to $52 million. Average sales for stores in the survey were $6.3 million, the median $3.3 million. |
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SA2 site carried 59 August itemsWINONA, Minnesota, September 1, 2003 -- The Society of Academic Authors kept members abreast of breaking news in their field with three e-mail news alerts during August, according to the society's monthly report to members. In all, the site carried 59 items. A series of online articles on how to work with a development author, by Mary Ellen Lepionka of Atlantic Path Publishing, continued during the month. The third installment is sheduled in Septer.MARY ELLEN LEPIONKA:
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