July
28, 2004
California Lawmakers
Pass Amendment Affecting Cost of Texts
The Senate Education
Committee voted 8 to 2 to approve an amendment that will allow the California
state board of education to provide publishers with acceptable price
ranges for instructional materials adopted by the state. The bill, proposed
by California Assemblyman Joe Canciamilla, would also require publishers
to offer a 30 percent discount to districts who order a second set of
books. The bill will need to pass through the Senate Appropriation Committee
before reaching the Senate.
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Pearson Education
Acquires Causeway Press
Pearson Education
announced that it has acquired Causeway Press, a publisher of educational
books for secondary and further education students, in a move that will
strengthen its UK school publishing operations. Causeway Press, founded
in 1982 by Mike Haralambos first made its name with the publication
of the GCSE level title, "Sociology: A New Approach", which has gone
on to sell half a million copies. Causeway will retain an editorial
office in Ormskirk, Lancashire, with other parts of the business integrated
into Pearson Education's Schools business (which operates under the
Longman, Phoenix/e1 and KnowledgeBox names.)
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Harcourt Closes
Saxon Publishing OK Division
Scarcely two months
after acquiring Norman, Oklahoma-based Saxon Publishers, Inc., Harcourt
Achieve announces that it will close the Norman operation, laying off
239 employees. Saxon Publishers was founded by John H. Saxon. Eleven
of the laid-off employees were offered positions in Austin, where Harcourt
Achieve is headquarters. The rest of the laid-off employees will receive
job search assistance and severance packages, said the company.
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Former University
of California Press Director Dies
August Frug, a University
of California Press director from the 1940s to the 1970s, died July
6 at age 94. Frug was credited for changing the direction of the Press
outside the realm of scholarly titles.
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Check Out This
Discussion of the Used Book Industry on E-commerce Times
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/35179.html
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TAA Calls For
Volunteers
This fall is a good
time for TAA members to help boost membership by promoting the association,
says Ron Pynn, TAA's executive director. "Take TAA brochures to conferences
and pass them out among your colleagues or leave them at a registration
table," he says. "Spread the word about TAA." You can also help TAA
make contact to provide workshops for faculty, he says. Ask your institution
to sponsor a TAA workshop, or your professional association to co-sponsor
a pre-convention TAA workshop, by sending a TAA workshop brochure to
your provost or association president along with a personal note. If
you make the initial contact, TAA will follow up and do the work to
make it happen. Contact the TAA office at (727) 563-0020 or text@tampabay.rr.com
for TAA and workshop brochures.
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TAA Membership
Reaches 1,200
TAA membership is
now 1,200, up from 1,100 last June. TAA's Managing Director Janet Tucker
attributes the increase to workshops conducted by member Tara Gray and
TAA Executive Director Ron Pynn.
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