Press Releases

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September 13, 2008
Text and Academic Authors Association debunks the top 7 myths regarding textbook costs
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June 30, 2008
Margaret Matson receives 2008 TAA Norma Hood Service Award.
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June 30, 2008
Kenneth Henson receives 2008 TAA Franklin Silverman Lifetime Achievement Award.
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June 30, 2008
Molefi Kete Asante receives 2008 TAA Mike Keedy Award.
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June 30, 2008
TAA Associate Executive Director Kim Pawlak receives 2008 TAA Paul Anderson Award.
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June 25, 2008
TAA unveils new logos for its Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) and McGuffey Longevity Award.
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June 25, 2008
TAA announces the 2008 Textbook Excellence Award and McGuffey Longevity Award winners.
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June 9, 2008
TAA launches redesigned website. New website has more streamlined look, better navigation tools, and new user-friendly features.
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April 23, 2007
Text and Academic Authors Association calls on members to speak out against a proposed Oregon bill that would dictate how faculty choose textbooks, course materials
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February 20, 2007
Stomp the Comp:
Why faculty should stop selling their comp copies to resellers
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November 2006
TAA In the News:

Dr. John Fuller's book getting rave reviews
http://www.westga.edu/~ucm/news_archive/05_06/fuller.html

Paul Knox wins 2005 Text and Academic Authors Association Award
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2005&itemno=1060

Writer's Groups Not Backing Down in Fight With Google
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170102359

Yahoo to digitize public domain books
http://news.com.com/Yahoo+to+digitize+public+domain+books/2100-1038_3-5887374.html

On My Desk: Why are textbooks expensive?
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whc/3.2/laichas.html#_edn3

Courts Unlikely to Stop Google Book Copying
http://internetweek.cmp.com/170700329

Newswatch India
http://www.newswatch.in/?p=1432

Google Takes On Copyright Laws
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68901,00.html

Professor's Book on Internet Legalities Earns 'Texty' Award
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001194.html

US authors to sue over Google Print Library project
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BNG/is_2005_Sept_21/ai_n15402751

Yahoo jumps on the library bandwagon
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051003-5378.html

June 30, 2006
TAAFreceives $15,000 gift
TAA member Betty Azar has made a $15,000 unrestricted gift to the TAA Foundation. Azar, the author of the bestselling Azar Grammar Series, published by Pearson Longman, said she hoped her gift would encourage other textbook authors of perennial bestsellers to support the Foundation with significant contributions.
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February 15, 2006
Stomp the Comp
by Richard Hull, TAA Executive Director
The old bugbear of textbook authors and publishers, the purchaser of used books, is on the prowl again, this time on a Northeastern U.S. college campus. And this time, the effort to purchase instructors' copies to resell to students is blatant.
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November 30, 2005
TAA: Authors, publishers object to Google's 'erroneous intrepretation' of fair-use law, violation of copyright
Hull compares Google's opt-out policy to allowing a thief to steal someone's possessions until they actively object
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October 4, 2005
TAA applauds Yahoo's approach to digitizing content
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September 6, 2005
GAO analysis of textbook costs accurate but incomplete
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August 25, 2005
Google Print Library Position 'Backwards'
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August 3, 2005
Mathematics text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Life sciences text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Geography text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Geography text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
The Nebraska Adventure wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Computer science text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Chemistry text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Physical sciences text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Labor relations text wins Textbook Excellence Award
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August 3, 2005
Life sciences textbook wins McGuffey Longevity Award
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August 3, 2005
Business communication textbook wins McGuffey Longevity Award
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August 3, 2005
Fitness textbook wins McGuffey Longevity Award
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August 3, 2005
Computer science textbook wins McGuffey Longevity Award
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August 3, 2005
Physical sciences textbook wins McGuffey Longevity Award
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August 3, 2005
Management textbook wins McGuffey Longevity Award
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April 25, 2005
Text and Academic Authors Association announces 2005 Texty, McGuffey Award Winners
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April 21, 2005
Textbook, academic author convention to be held in Vegas
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April 12, 2005
TAA President: Textbook bundling 'prohibition' not the answer
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Press Contacts

Kim Pawlak
Associate Executive Director
Phone: (608) 687-3106
Cell: (507) 459-1363
kim.pawlak@taaonline.net

Richard Hull
Executive Director
Phone: (850) 893-6539
richard.hull@taaonline.net

Janet Tucker
Office Manager
Phone: (727) 562-0020
TextandAcademicAuthors@taaonline.net

John Wakefield
President
Phone: (256) 765-4709
Cell: (256) 710-0303
jwakefie@msn.com